Pennsylvania Population: 12,368,256
Number in Poverty: 1,592,045
POVERTY RATE
Overall
12.9%
Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line—$24,340 for a family of four—in 2016
Children
18.1%
Percentage of children under age 18 who fell below the poverty line in 2016
Working-Age Women
13.9%
Percentage of women ages 18 to 64 who fell below the poverty line in 2016
RACE & ETHNICITY
African American
26.4%
Asian American
14.0%
Latino
30.0%
Native American
32.5%
White
10.1%
CREATING GOOD JOBS
Income Inequality Ratio
15.2
The share of income going to the top 20 percent of households versus that going to the bottom 20 percent of households in 2016
High School Graduation
84.8%
Percentage of public high school students who graduated on time in 2014-15 school year
Disconnected Youth
13.0%
Percentage of youth ages 18 to 24 without high school degrees who were not in school or working in 2015
Higher Education Attainment
48.2%
Percentage of young adults ages 25 to 34 who had an associate’s degree or higher in 2016
Gender Wage Gap
79.3¢
Median earnings of full-time year-round working women compared to that of men in 2016
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES
Children Living Apart from Parents
6.0 kids
Children that lived in foster care for every 1,000 children under age 18 in 2015
Teen Birth Rate
17.7 births
Births that took place for every 1,000 women ages 15 to 19 in 2015
PROMOTING FAMILY ECONOMIC SECURITY
Hunger and Food Insecurity
12.5%
Percentage of households who were food insecure on average from 2014 to 2016, meaning that at some point during the year, they experienced difficulty providing enough food due to a lack of money or resources.
Affordable Housing
67.0 units
Number of apartments or other units that were affordable and available for every 100 renter households with very low incomes in 2015. Very low-income households are those with incomes at or below 50 percent of the area median income.
Assets and Savings
7.0%
Percentage of households that used high-cost, high-risk forms of credit to make ends meet during 2015. This includes payday loans, automobile title loans, refund anticipation loans, rent-to-own, and pawning.
Unemployment Insurance
38.8%
Percentage of unemployed workers who received unemployment insurance in 2016
Health Insurance Coverage
11.4%
Percentage of people under age 65 and below 138 percent of the poverty line who did not have health insurance at any time in 2016
