Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Income and Poverty in Logan County, North Dakota

When put side-by-side with other counties (or parishes) throughout the United States, Logan County, North Dakota can be understood to have a medium-high poverty rate amid the residents with a poverty rate of 15.1 percent of the population with family incomes below the 1999 poverty level. The Hispanic race/ethnicity demographic category, owns the foremost rate of poverty with 36.4 percent of the 2000 population living in poverty. People that are of the age 75 years and over are witness to the most percent living in poverty in Logan County, having 22.4 percent of this demographic group living with incomes under poverty.

Hispanic headed households in Logan County, North Dakota , according to the 2000 census, had a median household income of $2,924, this income level is 91.1 percent less than the median reported for all households in the area. It was reported in 2000 that the Asian headed households had median household incomes of $71,663. This median income level is 118.9 percent greater than the all households reported median in the area. In Logan County, North Dakota White headed households reported a median household income (2005 Dollars) of $32,717 according to the Decennial Census of 2000, which was 0.1 percent less than the median in 2000.

When analyzed against other counties (and parishes) in the US, Logan County had a relatively low median income for all households of $32,744 (Adjusted to 2005 Dollars). This figure is 23.6 percent lower than the household income median in State of North Dakota of $40,487 and this is 50.1 percent lower than the median household income in the United States of $49,133.







Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2000 Decennial Census.

 

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