Spatial Concentrations and Outliers of Poverty United States

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Key points

This map depicts areas of geographically concentrated high and low poverty as well as counties that were statistical outliers for poverty in the United States in 1999.

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Map showing spatial concentrations and outliers of poverty for counties in the United States. The map shows a distinctive north-south divide across most of the United States, in which concentrations of low poverty and spatial outliers of high poverty are confined to the northern half, and concentrations of high poverty and spatial outliers of low poverty are confined to the southern half.
Map showing spatial concentrations and outliers of poverty in the United States

Data sources

The purpose of this map is to better depict the spatial concentration of poverty, at the county-level, for the United States.

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2000 SF-3 Long Form Census Data.

Local Moran’s I combined with statistical categorization of poverty.

James B. Holt, Team Leader, Analytic Methods, CDC
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jgh4@cdc.gov

Spatial Concentrations and Outliers of Poverty, United States, 1999 James B. Holt. Accessed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Chronic Disease Map Gallery.

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