TABLE 2.3

Five Kentucky Counties with the Highest Poverty Rates

and Largest Numbers of Poor*

1989

Poverty Rate

 

Number of Poor

Population*

Number of Poor

 

Poverty Rate

Population*

Number of Poor

Poverty Rate

1. Owsley

4,930

2,570

52.1%

1. Jefferson

653,174

89,755

13.7%

2. McCreary

15,533

7,062

45.5%

2. Fayette

213,016

30,108

14.1%

3. Wolfe

6,403

2,835

44.3%

3. Pike

71,760

18,234

25.4%

4. Magoffin

12,881

5,479

42.5%

4. Kenton

139,944

13,792

9.9%

5. Knott

17,416

7,035

40.4%

5. Floyd

43,301

13,521

31.2%

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census

 

*The Census Bureau does not determine poverty status for the entire population. Excluded are institutionalized persons, persons in military group quarters, residents of college dormitories, and unrelated individuals under 15 years old. These excluded groups constitute less than 3 percent of Kentucky's population.