"According to Census Bureau data, the rural poverty rate was 15.4 percent and the urban rate was 11.9% in 2019. The recent peak for rural poverty was 18.4% in 2013, during the slow recovery from the Great Recession. Poverty rates are highest in the South, including the Mississippi Delta, and in Appalachia," Abbott reports, noting that the rural poverty rate was 33% when the Census Bureau began tracking it in 1959, twice as high as metropolitan areas' 15% rate.
The Rural Poverty & Well-being page has data breaking down rural-urban poverty rate comparisons over time; regional analysis of poverty, including maps; demographic break-downs of rural and urban poverty by race and age, state-level fact sheets, and maps at the state and county level.
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