Economic Well-being Data Now Available on the KIDS COUNT Data Center

New economic well-being data are now available on the KIDS COUNT Data Center.

Indicators for economic well-being, including house ownership and housing burden, have been updated according to data from the U.S Census Bureau’s 2009 American Community Survey. In 2009, 67 percent of children lived households with high housing burdens, which are defined as households where housing costs exceed 30 percent of income. This is a dramatic increase from 2000, when 54 percent of children lived in households with high housing burden. The increase represents an additional 5.7 million more children at a higher risk of losing their homes.

The Data Center provides access to child poverty rates by state, city-level and congressional district. Maps and graphs of the latest data on poverty, health insurance and other indicators of child well-being are also available.
 

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