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Nearly a third of Californians are living in or near poverty. In early 2023, 31.1% of residents were poor or near poor (with resources up to one and a half times the CPM poverty line), up from 28.7% in fall 2021. The share of Californians who were near poor rose slightly from 17.0% in fall 2021 to 17.9% in early 2023.
Jointly produced by CPI and the Public Policy Institute of California, the CPM draws on administrative and survey data to deliver the state’s most comprehensive measure of poverty. The data show that the poverty rate declined from 19.4% in 2016 to 17.8% in 2017.
Hace 4 días · This interactive shows poverty rates from the first quarter of 2023 across demographic groups in California, according to the California Poverty Measure (CPM). It shows poverty rates by age, education, employment, family composition, immigrant status, and race/ethnicity.
In early 2023, about 5 million Californians were under the CPM poverty line (on average $39,900 yearly for a family of two adults and two children). ⊲ Child poverty jumped from 9.0% in fall 2021 to 13.8% in early 2023; child poverty was 17.6% in 2019. ⊲ Pandemic relief programs mitigated poverty substantially in 2021.
California has the highest rate of poverty at 13.2% of any state in the U.S. (3-year average, 2020-22) 1. An average of 5,142,000 Californians lived in poverty from 2020-22, larger than the total population of 27 individual states 1,22. 16.9% of Latinos in California lived in poverty in early 2023. 2.
Between 2011 and 2019, poverty in California declined by a total of 5.4 percentage points, a relative drop of nearly one-quarter (see Figure 1). The deep poverty rate similarly saw a relative total decline of more than one-quarter from 2011 to 2019, (from 6.3% to 4.6%).
The California Poverty Measure (CPM), jointly produced by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Public Policy Institute of California, draws on administrative and survey data to deliver the state’s most comprehen-sive measure of poverty.
