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 Need			Cities with the Highest Populations in Need
	1	Fremont, CA		141	Richmond, VA
	2	Huntington Beach, CA		142	Birmingham, AL
	3	Irvine, CA		143	Brownsville, TX
	4	Overland Park, KS		144	Augusta, GA
	T-5	Rancho Cucamonga, CA		145	Jackson, MS
	T-5	Sioux Falls, SD		146	New Orleans, LA
	7	Pembroke Pines, FL		147	Memphis, TN
	8	Gilbert, AZ		148	Cleveland, OH
	9	San Jose, CA		149	Atlanta, GA
	10	Virginia Beach, VA		150	Detroit, 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/