Utah’s poverty rate saw jump from 2022 to 2023
Sep 26, 2024, 5:00 PM
FILE - The briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. Eleven small cities in Illinois and Iowa are the only municipalities so far to have signed agreements with the U.S. Census Bureau for a second count of their residents in 2024, the first year the special censuses can be conducted, in a repeat of what happened during the 2020 census. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
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SALT LAKE CITY — The poverty rate in Utah saw an increase in 2023, especially in the Salt Lake metro area, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
In Salt Lake, the percentage of people living in poverty jumped nearly 2% from 2022 to 2023.
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People who make less than roughly $16,000 a year as an individual, or under $31,000 as a family with two adults and two children, are considered below the poverty line in the data.
Some of the largest increases in poverty are among males and kids under 18 years old.
The poverty rate for males rose from 6.5% to 9.1%. For kids under 18 years old, it rose 3.1%.
Overall, the poverty rate in Utah rose from 8.3% in 2022 to 9% in 2023.
