Poverty (ACS)

The share of people living below the poverty line in each Georgia community, overall and by race/ethnicity - American Community Survey 5-year estimates down to the census-tract level.

Fuente: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
Cobertura de años: 2020–2024
Actualización: annual
Versión: 2.0.0
Hash del esquema: d7561f3e6e26

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Resumen

Poverty status by Census race/ethnicity iteration from the American Community Survey 5-year estimates (table B17001 and its race iterations B17001B-I), for Georgia at state, county, school district, and census tract geography, vintages 2020-2024: the share of people below the federal poverty line, with the underlying counts and 90 percent margins of error.

Granularidad de fila: Una fila por year, county_fips, district_code, tract_geoid, race_iteration.

Métrica clave

poverty_rate — Poverty Rate (proportion)

El valor principal que la mayoría de las consultas busca.

Esquema JSON →Contrato de datos (YAML) →

Variables

Todas las columnas de la tabla de hechos. El código es el nombre exacto del campo que devuelve la API.

Columna	Tipo	Unidad	Rango	¿Nulo?	Descripción
`year`Year	integer	—	—	no	ACS 5-year vintage END year: 2024 covers the pooled 2020-2024 survey period. Consecutive vintages overlap. Descripción completa▾ ACS 5-year vintage END year: 2024 covers the pooled 2020-2024 survey period. Consecutive vintages overlap.
`county_fips`County FIPS	string	—	—	yes	5-digit county FIPS code (state 13 + county). Populated only on county-level rows. Descripción completa▾ 5-digit county FIPS code (state 13 + county). Populated only on county-level rows. Se une a counties; agrega sus columnas de etiqueta.
`district_code`District Code	string	—	—	yes	GCD school district code (FK to the education districts dimension). Populated only on district-level rows - Census unified-school-district estimates mapped onto the ~180 standard districts. Descripción completa▾ GCD school district code (FK to the education districts dimension). Populated only on district-level rows - Census unified-school-district estimates mapped onto the ~180 standard districts. Se une a districts; agrega sus columnas de etiqueta.
`tract_geoid`Tract GEOID	string	—	—	yes	11-digit census tract GEOID (2020 boundaries). Populated only on tract-level rows. Descripción completa▾ 11-digit census tract GEOID (2020 boundaries). Populated only on tract-level rows. Se une a tracts; agrega sus columnas de etiqueta.
`race_iteration`Race Iteration	string	—	—	no	Census race-iteration table; the groups overlap, so never sum them - 'all' is the total. Descripción completa▾ Census race-iteration table membership (topic-specific categorical - NOT the shared demographic axis and no FK to the demographics dimension). 'all' = the total population with poverty status determined (B17001); 'white' = White alone, not Hispanic or Latino (iteration H); 'hispanic' = Hispanic or Latino of any race (iteration I); 'black', 'native_american', 'asian', 'pacific_islander', 'other', 'multiracial' = the race-alone iterations B-G, which INCLUDE Hispanic members. The iterations OVERLAP and are NOT mutually exclusive (a Hispanic Black person is in both 'hispanic' and 'black'), so the rows never sum to 'all' and must not be added across this column. 9 valores permitidos▾ `all — total / agregado` `asian` `black` `hispanic` `multiracial` `native_american` `other` `pacific_islander` `white`
`poverty_rate`Poverty Rate	number	proportion	—	yes	Share below the federal poverty line. Descripción completa▾ People below the federal poverty line as a share of those with poverty status determined (0-1), derived as num_below_poverty / num_poverty_universe. NULL when the category's universe estimate is 0 in the geography (no one sampled - not proof there are none). Not the same construct as school data's 'economically disadvantaged'.
`poverty_rate_moe`Poverty Rate Moe	number	proportion	—	yes	90 percent margin of error for poverty_rate, derived from the published count margins with the Census ratio formula: the subtraction form, with the Census addition-form fallback whenever the radicand is not positive, so a served margin is always greater than zero. A rate of exactly 0 or 1 (0 or 100 percent) instead takes the Census's own model margin for such estimates, 1.645 * sqrt(R * (1 - R) * AW / N) with R = min(2.3 * AW / N, 0.5), N the denominator and AW Georgia's average survey weight for the vintage (18 in 2020, 19 in 2021-2024): the ratio formula would give a 0 percent rate only the zero count's margin over N, about half the width the Census publishes. Never the headline metric. Descripción completa▾ 90 percent margin of error for poverty_rate, derived from the published count margins with the Census ratio formula: the subtraction form, with the Census addition-form fallback whenever the radicand is not positive, so a served margin is always greater than zero. A rate of exactly 0 or 1 (0 or 100 percent) instead takes the Census's own model margin for such estimates, 1.645 * sqrt(R * (1 - R) * AW / N) with R = min(2.3 * AW / N, 0.5), N the denominator and AW Georgia's average survey weight for the vintage (18 in 2020, 19 in 2021-2024): the ratio formula would give a 0 percent rate only the zero count's margin over N, about half the width the Census publishes. Never the headline metric.
`num_below_poverty`Number Below Poverty	integer	count	—	yes	People with income below the poverty level in the past 12 months (ACS estimate) - the rate's numerator. Descripción completa▾ People with income below the poverty level in the past 12 months (ACS estimate) - the rate's numerator.
`num_below_poverty_moe`Number Below Poverty Moe	integer	count	—	yes	90 percent margin of error for num_below_poverty, as published. Descripción completa▾ 90 percent margin of error for num_below_poverty, as published.
`num_poverty_universe`Number Poverty Universe	integer	count	—	yes	Population for whom poverty status is determined (ACS estimate) - the rate's denominator. Excludes most group quarters (dorms, prisons, barracks). Descripción completa▾ Population for whom poverty status is determined (ACS estimate) - the rate's denominator. Excludes most group quarters (dorms, prisons, barracks).
`num_poverty_universe_moe`Number Poverty Universe Moe	integer	count	—	yes	90 percent margin of error for num_poverty_universe, as published. Descripción completa▾ 90 percent margin of error for num_poverty_universe, as published.

Filtros

Parámetros de consulta que acepta el endpoint de hechos. Los valores separados por comas son OR dentro de un parámetro; varios parámetros se combinan con AND.

Parámetro	Tipo	Valores permitidos	Notas
`year`	year_exact	cualquier valor	—
`year_min`	year_range	cualquier valor	—
`year_max`	year_range	cualquier valor	—
`detail`	detail	`countiesdistrictsstatestracts`	enum validado, predeterminado: counties
`district_code`	foreign_key	cualquier valor	valores múltiples
`county_fips`	foreign_key	cualquier valor	valores múltiples
`tract_geoid`	foreign_key	cualquier valor	valores múltiples
`race_iteration`	categorical	9 valores permitidos▾ `all` `asian` `black` `hispanic` `multiracial` `native_american` `other` `pacific_islander` `white`	valores múltiples, enum validado
`district_type`	dimension_attribute	7 valores permitidos▾ `commission_charter` `resa` `standard` `state_agency` `state_charter` `state_school` `state_special`	valores múltiples, enum validado

Ejemplos de solicitudes

Ejecútalos contra la URL base: devuelven datos en vivo.

All rows (first page), counties level

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/poverty"

counties data for 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/poverty?year=2024"

Filtered to race_iteration = asian for 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/poverty?year=2024&race_iteration=asian"

One district (code 660), 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/poverty?district_code=660&year=2024&detail=districts"

One county (FIPS 13121), 2024

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/poverty?county_fips=13121&year=2024&detail=counties"

Download 2024 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/census/poverty?year=2024&format=csv"

Notas y limitaciones

Manejo de NULL

Las celdas suprimidas (valores que la fuente oculta, normalmente por un grupo demasiado pequeño para informarlo) son NULL, nunca cero.
El cero es un valor real y reportado.

Limitaciones

Race/ethnicity is served on the topic-specific race_iteration column, NOT the shared demographic axis, because the Census race-iteration tables OVERLAP: 'white' is White alone NOT Hispanic (B17001H) and 'hispanic' is Hispanic of any race (B17001I), but the remaining groups are race-ALONE iterations (B17001B-G) that INCLUDE Hispanic members - a Hispanic Black person is counted in both 'hispanic' and 'black'. The demographics dimension promises mutually exclusive categories, which these rows cannot honor (the Census publishes no other non-Hispanic poverty splits), so the split below-poverty counts never sum to the 'all' row and must not be added across race_iteration values; 'all' (B17001) is the total population and is the default pin. population_by_race (B03002) IS mutually exclusive and stays on demographic. Universe: the population for whom poverty status is determined, which EXCLUDES most group quarters (college dorms, prisons, military barracks) - material in counties with large institutional populations. A NULL poverty_rate at tract grain almost always means the race iteration's poverty universe is estimated at 0 in that tract: no one in the group was sampled there, which is not proof there are none (and not suppression); the universe count on the row says which. ACS poverty is NOT the same construct as GOSA's 'economically disadvantaged' (a program-eligibility flag) - related, not equivalent. poverty_rate_moe is derived from the published count margins with the Census ratio formula (addition-form fallback whenever the subtraction form's radicand is not positive, so a served margin is never zero; a 0 or 100 percent rate takes the Census's own model margin for such estimates); a degenerate small-sample margin above 1.0 is set to NULL. ACS 5-year period estimates: the year column is the vintage END year and each estimate pools five years of survey responses (2024 = 2020-2024). Consecutive vintages share about 80% of their sample, so the series is heavily smoothed - never difference overlapping vintages as if they were annual change. Estimates are survey-based and carry 90% margins of error (the *_moe columns); tract-level margins can be large relative to the estimate. All levels serve vintages 2020-2024 only, on 2020-vintage tract boundaries. State rows have NULL county_fips, district_code, and tract_geoid; county rows carry only county_fips, district rows only district_code, tract rows only tract_geoid. District rows cover the ~180 standard (city/county) districts only: the Census publishes school-district estimates at unified school district geography, which has no codes for charter schools, RESAs, or state agencies, and its few Census-only districts (e.g. the Fort Stewart military district) have no GCD district code and are dropped.