Where Are California’s Highest Childhood Poverty Rates?

Childhood poverty can have wide-ranging and  long-lasting effects on the health and well-being of children. Kids living in poverty are more likely to have inadequate nutrition and less access to health care, and to live in unstable, unsafe neighborhoods. Children in  poverty are also more likely to receive a poorer  education.

But where in California is poverty most prevalent? According to newly posted data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), California’s Central Valley is overwhelmingly represented.

Of the 12 counties reporting the highest percentage of  children in poverty in 2006-08, ten are in the Central Valley. Tulare County, where nearly 1 in 3 children lives in poverty, has the highest level of childhood poverty.

Posted by kidsdata.org

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