2000-2010: Oregon Share of Total Population Living in Concentrated Poverty Increased by 157%, 4th Largest State % Increase.

Last week the Census Bureau issued a PDF report HERE on the change in state populations living in areas of concentrated poverty (Census tracts where poverty rates were 20% or more) from 2000-2010.

I extracted data from that report and put it into an Excel workbook HERE, and embedded below, and constructed two worksheets that show the change in the total population living in concentrated poverty and the change of the poverty population living in concentrated poverty. 

Observations, Oregon Concentrated Poverty Changes from 2000-2010.
1. Oregon, at a 157% growth rate, had the 4th highest % growth in the share of the total population living in concentrated poverty; that growth rate was nearly 4 X the national growth rate of 42%.  In 2010 Oregon's share of total population living in census tracts where poverty rates were 20% or higher was 26.2%, slightly higher than the national average of 25.7%
2. Oregon, at a 100.4% growth rate, had the 6th highest % growth in the share of the the POVERTY population living in concentrated poverty; Oregon's growth rate was nearly 5 X the national growth rate. In 2010 Oregon's share of the POVERTY population living in census tracts where poverty rates were 20% or higher was 46.7% , lower than the national average of 53.5%.

(Readers may recall related prior post HERE about location of Oregon LIHTC projects in high poverty census tracts). 

More Detail Available:
IF you want to see the raw ACS 2008-2012 data for the State of Oregon, all Oregon counties, all Oregon places and all Oregon census tracts, the ACS bookmark HERE will let you see/ download that data. (From that data I count in Oregon 224 census tracts, 113 places, and 3 counties with a poverty rate of 20% or higher; the statewide poverty rate was 15.5%).

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.