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Monday, December 14, 2015

2015’s Cities with the Highest and Lowest Populations in Need – WalletHub Study

Hoping to inspire goodwill toward the less fortunate, WalletHub’s analysts compared the 150 most populated U.S. cities across 16 key metrics to determine where Americans are most economically disadvantaged. The data set ranges from poverty rate to food-insecurity rate to percentage of maltreated people.

Cities with the Lowest Populations in NeedCities with the Highest Populations in Need
1Fremont, CA141Richmond, VA
2Huntington Beach, CA142Birmingham, AL
3Irvine, CA143Brownsville, TX
4Overland Park, KS144Augusta, GA
T-5Rancho Cucamonga, CA145Jackson, MS
T-5Sioux Falls, SD146New Orleans, LA
7Pembroke Pines, FL147Memphis, TN
8Gilbert, AZ148Cleveland, OH
9San Jose, CA149Atlanta, GA
10Virginia Beach, VA150Detroit, MI

Key Stats
  • The child-poverty rate is highest in Detroit, eight times above that of Fremont, Calif., which has the lowest.
     
  • The adult-poverty rate is highest in Detroit, six times above that of Overland Park, Kan., which has the lowest.
     
  • The number of homeless residents per capita is highest in Honolulu, 87 times above that of Las Vegas, which has the lowest.
     
  • The unemployment rate is highest in Detroit, six times above that of Lincoln, Neb., which has the lowest.
     
  • The percentage of households lacking health insurance is highest in Hialeah, Fla., eight times above that of Worchester, Mass., which has the lowest.
     
  • The violent-crime rate is highest in Detroit, 40 times above that of Irvine, Calif., which has the lowest.

For the full report and to see where your city ranks, please visit: https://wallethub.com/edu/cities-with-the-highest-and-lowest-population-in-need/8795/


Source: WalletHub

# We would like to Thank WalletHub for sharing the survey information key findings with Ability Chicago Info.

For the full report and to see where your city ranks, please visit: https://wallethub.com/edu/cities-with-the-highest-and-lowest-population-in-need/8795/

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