Longer arrows represent greater change in poverty and thicker arrows represent denser population.
Newly poor tracts are ones that had a poverty rate of 30% or more in 2010 that
did not in 1970.
- ⟵Poverty declined
- Poverty increased⟶
Atlanta
Change in poverty from 1970 to 2010 for core census tracts
22.0% of census tracts are newly poor
Austin
16.6% of census tracts are newly poor
Baltimore
7.0% of census tracts are newly poor
Birmingham
14.5% of census tracts are newly poor
Boston
9.3% of census tracts are newly poor
Buffalo
17.8% of census tracts are newly poor
Charlotte
7.9% of census tracts are newly poor
Chicago
20.1% of census tracts are newly poor
Cincinnati
16.5% of census tracts are newly poor
Cleveland
27.1% of census tracts are newly poor
Columbus
23.0% of census tracts are newly poor
Dallas
19.7% of census tracts are newly poor
Denver
11.6% of census tracts are newly poor
Detroit
48.5% of census tracts are newly poor
Hartford
16.5% of census tracts are newly poor
Houston
23.3% of census tracts are newly poor
Indianapolis
19.5% of census tracts are newly poor
Jacksonville
8.6% of census tracts are newly poor
Kansas city
21.4% of census tracts are newly poor
Las vegas
6.9% of census tracts are newly poor
Los angeles
16.9% of census tracts are newly poor
Louisville
14.7% of census tracts are newly poor
Memphis
27.8% of census tracts are newly poor
Miami
16.8% of census tracts are newly poor
Milwaukee
24.3% of census tracts are newly poor
Minneapolis
14.1% of census tracts are newly poor
Nashville
12.1% of census tracts are newly poor
New orleans
14.2% of census tracts are newly poor
New york
13.7% of census tracts are newly poor
Oklahoma city
11.1% of census tracts are newly poor
Orlando
2.9% of census tracts are newly poor
Philadelphia
18.9% of census tracts are newly poor
Phoenix
24.8% of census tracts are newly poor
Pittsburgh
12.1% of census tracts are newly poor
Portland
5.2% of census tracts are newly poor
Providence
7.2% of census tracts are newly poor
Raleigh
4.6% of census tracts are newly poor
Richmond
8.1% of census tracts are newly poor
Riverside
9.4% of census tracts are newly poor
Rochester
21.0% of census tracts are newly poor
Sacramento
13.3% of census tracts are newly poor
Salt lake city
4.8% of census tracts are newly poor
San antonio
17.4% of census tracts are newly poor
San diego
9.7% of census tracts are newly poor
San francisco
4.3% of census tracts are newly poor
San jose
2.3% of census tracts are newly poor
Seattle
4.4% of census tracts are newly poor
St louis
21.5% of census tracts are newly poor
Tampa
10.0% of census tracts are newly poor
Virginia beach
2.8% of census tracts are newly poor
Washington, D.C.
6.0% of census tracts are newly poor
