countypov {usmap}

Poverty percentage estimates (2021), county level

Description

US census poverty percentage estimates by county for 2021.

The data is formatted for easy merging with output from us_map().

Usage

data(countypov)

Format

A data frame with 3194 rows and 4 variables.

Details

• fips The 5-digit FIPS code corresponding to the county.

• abbr The 2-letter state abbreviation.

• county The full county name.

• pct_pov_2021 The 2021 poverty estimate (in percent of county population) for the corresponding county.

References

• https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/poverty.html

• https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/county-level-data-sets/