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Percent of total population in poverty, 2007
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All people in poverty (2007)
Children ages 0-17 in poverty (2007)
90% confidence interval of estimate
90% confidence interval of estimate
FIPS*
Name
RUC Code¹
Percent
Lower bound
Upper bound
Percent
Lower bound
Upper bound
1 23000 Maine 12.2 11.7 12.6 15.7 14.8 16.6
2 23001 Androscoggin County 3 14.1 11.9 16.3 18.9 15.0 22.9
3 23003 Aroostook County 7 17.4 15.4 19.5 19.9 16.1 23.6
4 23005 Cumberland County 2 9.7 8.3 11.0 11.6 9.2 13.9
5 23007 Franklin County 6 16.0 13.1 19.0 21.5 16.7 26.4
6 23009 Hancock County 6 9.9 8.1 11.8 15.0 11.5 18.4
7 23011 Kennebec County 4 13.0 11.0 15.0 17.1 13.6 20.7
8 23013 Knox County 7 10.6 8.7 12.4 14.6 11.0 18.1
9 23015 Lincoln County 8 10.8 8.7 13.0 17.2 13.0 21.4
10 23017 Oxford County 6 14.4 11.9 16.9 19.3 14.9 23.7
11 23019 Penobscot County 3 13.5 11.6 15.4 16.9 13.5 20.3
12 23021 Piscataquis County 8 16.5 13.2 19.8 24.2 18.5 29.8
13 23023 Sagadahoc County 2 9.2 7.2 11.1 13.3 10.1 16.6
14 23025 Somerset County 6 17.2 14.5 19.8 22.2 17.6 26.8
15 23027 Waldo County 6 14.5 12.0 17.0 20.4 15.9 24.8
16 23029 Washington County 7 20.1 17.1 23.2 29.5 23.6 35.4
17 23031 York County 2 8.2 7.0 9.5 10.5 8.3 12.7
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¹The 2003 rural-urban continuum codes classify metropolitan counties (codes 1 through 3) by size of the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), and nonmetropolitan counties (codes 4 through 9) by degree of urbanization and proximity to metro areas. See rural-urban continuum codes for precise definitions of each code.
Source: Bureau of the Census, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates .
*See the Census Bureau web site for a description of FIPS codes.