Texas Counties: Percent in Poverty

Compiled by
The County Information Program, Texas Association of Counties
Data source: U.S. Census Bureau. Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates. (2011)

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Percent in Poverty
Anderson23.30%
Andrews13.30%
Angelina19.10%
Aransas21.30%
Archer11.80%
Armstrong10.60%
Atascosa21.80%
Austin13.00%
Bailey17.90%
Bandera12.30%
Bastrop14.60%
Baylor19.60%
Bee29.60%
Bell15.80%
Bexar17.90%
Blanco11.50%
Borden11.80%
Bosque16.80%
Bowie19.10%
Brazoria12.10%
Brazos29.00%
Brewster16.60%
Briscoe16.30%
Brooks35.40%
Brown20.40%
Burleson18.30%
Burnet16.60%
Caldwell19.60%
Calhoun18.70%
Callahan15.80%
Cameron33.70%
Camp21.80%
Carson8.80%
Cass17.30%
Castro20.50%
Chambers9.60%
Cherokee21.50%
Childress24.50%
Clay10.70%
Cochran21.00%
Coke13.10%
Coleman22.90%
Collin8.20%
Collingsworth21.70%
Colorado16.80%
Comal9.40%
Comanche23.20%
Concho29.20%
Cooke14.30%
Coryell16.10%
Cottle20.90%
Crane11.20%
Crockett16.00%
Crosby27.80%
Culberson26.00%
Dallam14.00%
Dallas20.00%
Dawson23.30%
Deaf Smith22.10%
Delta21.70%
Denton9.40%
DeWitt18.10%
Dickens23.80%
Dimmit26.80%
Donley19.90%
Duval27.10%
Eastland20.40%
Ector15.80%
Edwards23.60%
Ellis12.60%
El Paso24.60%
Erath20.00%
Falls26.30%
Fannin19.40%
Fayette14.70%
Fisher14.00%
Floyd20.20%
Foard17.90%
Fort Bend8.90%
Franklin17.10%
Freestone15.50%
Frio34.60%
Gaines17.40%
Galveston14.90%
Garza28.60%
Gillespie12.50%
Glasscock11.00%
Goliad16.00%
Gonzales23.40%
Gray14.60%
Grayson16.50%
Gregg17.70%
Grimes19.10%
Guadalupe10.80%
Hale25.80%
Hall24.50%
Hamilton16.90%
Hansford13.70%
Hardeman19.00%
Hardin13.00%
Harris19.40%
Harrison16.40%
Hartley11.40%
Haskell23.60%
Hays14.90%
Hemphill8.90%
Henderson16.30%
Hidalgo37.30%
Hill19.00%
Hockley17.50%
Hood11.40%
Hopkins18.90%
Houston24.10%
Howard23.30%
Hudspeth31.40%
Hunt16.40%
Hutchinson13.40%
Irion10.50%
Jack15.00%
Jackson16.00%
Jasper19.10%
Jeff Davis14.10%
Jefferson20.00%
Jim Hogg25.00%
Jim Wells25.50%
Johnson13.10%
Jones25.80%
Karnes26.70%
Kaufman12.40%
Kendall10.10%
Kenedy16.60%
Kent11.30%
Kerr14.60%
Kimble20.00%
King11.00%
Kinney22.90%
Kleberg27.50%
Knox23.10%
Lamar20.00%
Lamb24.50%
Lampasas17.20%
La Salle36.30%
Lavaca12.70%
Lee14.00%
Leon17.60%
Liberty19.30%
Limestone22.40%
Lipscomb12.80%
Live Oak20.20%
Llano15.60%
Loving17.00%
Lubbock20.40%
Lynn19.60%
McCulloch22.70%
McLennan23.70%
McMullen10.40%
Madison23.70%
Marion22.10%
Martin16.40%
Mason15.00%
Matagorda20.40%
Maverick31.20%
Medina17.60%
Menard23.40%
Midland12.80%
Milam20.00%
Mills17.90%
Mitchell23.10%
Montague15.60%
Montgomery13.70%
Moore15.90%
Morris20.70%
Motley17.60%
Nacogdoches24.20%
Navarro19.70%
Newton20.40%
Nolan21.60%
Nueces20.00%
Ochiltree14.30%
Oldham14.60%
Orange16.10%
Palo Pinto20.80%
Panola15.90%
Parker10.70%
Parmer16.90%
Pecos19.80%
Polk20.00%
Potter22.80%
Presidio23.70%
Rains17.00%
Randall9.90%
Reagan9.90%
Real20.70%
Red River21.40%
Reeves33.00%
Refugio17.20%
Roberts8.50%
Robertson21.30%
Rockwall6.00%
Runnels20.80%
Rusk17.10%
Sabine22.00%
San Augustine24.20%
San Jacinto21.80%
San Patricio19.80%
San Saba20.40%
Schleicher16.70%
Scurry17.60%
Shackelford14.00%
Shelby21.00%
Sherman12.80%
Smith17.10%
Somervell10.20%
Starr39.30%
Stephens19.40%
Sterling11.40%
Stonewall17.50%
Sutton12.60%
Swisher21.80%
Tarrant16.80%
Taylor16.80%
Terrell16.80%
Terry23.30%
Throckmorton15.30%
Titus18.30%
Tom Green17.70%
Travis18.10%
Trinity21.20%
Tyler21.00%
Upshur15.90%
Upton16.40%
Uvalde25.80%
Val Verde21.50%
Van Zandt17.50%
Victoria18.50%
Walker25.50%
Waller18.30%
Ward15.20%
Washington14.60%
Webb32.10%
Wharton18.50%
Wheeler12.80%
Wichita16.20%
Wilbarger18.80%
Willacy38.90%
Williamson7.40%
Wilson12.40%
Winkler15.20%
Wise12.00%
Wood17.60%
Yoakum13.10%
Young16.90%
Zapata33.60%
Zavala36.30%

Data source: U.S. Census Bureau. Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates.
Data year: 2011