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Table 6. People in families and unrelated individuals: poverty status and work experience, 2024 (Numbers in thousands)

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Table 6. People in families and unrelated individuals: poverty status and work experience, 2024 (Numbers in thousands)

Poverty status and work experience	Total	In married-couple families(1)				In families maintained by women(2)			In families maintained by men(2)			Unrelated individuals
Poverty status and work experience	Total	Husbands	Wives	Related children under 18 years	Other relatives	Householder	Related children under 18 years	Other relatives	Householder	Related children under 18 years	Other relatives	Unrelated individuals
Total, 16 years and older
All people	273,023	62,146	62,825	5,908	24,697	15,694	2,309	16,400	7,366	754	8,772	66,152
With labor force activity	177,156	45,252	38,540	1,578	15,621	11,136	575	10,190	5,757	170	5,642	42,697
1 to 26 weeks	12,810	1,402	2,366	807	2,517	729	279	1,167	310	64	414	2,756
27 weeks or more	164,346	43,850	36,173	771	13,104	10,407	296	9,023	5,446	106	5,228	39,941
With no labor force activity	95,866	16,894	24,286	4,330	9,077	4,558	1,734	6,210	1,609	584	3,130	23,455
At or above poverty level
All people	246,450	59,472	60,127	5,579	23,805	12,279	1,769	14,364	6,560	656	8,066	53,774
With labor force activity	168,848	44,187	38,071	1,557	15,378	9,363	505	9,547	5,349	167	5,456	39,269
1 to 26 weeks	10,705	1,292	2,246	795	2,419	355	234	993	221	63	357	1,731
27 weeks or more	158,143	42,895	35,825	762	12,959	9,008	271	8,554	5,128	104	5,099	37,538
With no labor force activity	77,602	15,286	22,056	4,022	8,427	2,915	1,264	4,817	1,211	489	2,610	14,505
Below poverty level
All people	26,573	2,674	2,698	329	893	3,416	540	2,036	806	98	705	12,378
With labor force activity	8,308	1,065	469	21	243	1,773	70	643	407	3	186	3,428
1 to 26 weeks	2,105	110	120	12	98	374	45	174	89	1	57	1,025
27 weeks or more	6,203	955	349	9	145	1,399	25	469	318	3	129	2,403
With no labor force activity	18,265	1,609	2,229	308	650	1,643	470	1,393	398	95	519	8,951
Rate(3)
All people	9.7	4.3	4.3	5.6	3.6	21.8	23.4	12.4	10.9	13.0	8.0	18.7
With labor force activity	4.7	2.4	1.2	1.3	1.6	15.9	12.2	6.3	7.1	1.9	3.3	8.0
1 to 26 weeks	16.4	7.8	5.1	1.5	3.9	51.3	16.0	14.9	28.7	-	13.8	37.2
27 weeks or more	3.8	2.2	1.0	1.2	1.1	13.4	8.6	5.2	5.8	2.4	2.5	6.0
With no labor force activity	19.1	9.5	9.2	7.1	7.2	36.0	27.1	22.4	24.7	16.3	16.6	38.2
(1) Beginning with data for 2018, includes people in both opposite-sex and same-sex married-couple families. Prior to 2018, included opposite-sex married-couple families only. (2) Beginning with data for 2018, includes people in families with no spouse of either sex present. Prior to 2018, included only families with no opposite-sex spouse present. (3) Number below the poverty level as a percentage of the total.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS).