2007 County-Level Poverty Rates for Tennessee

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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	47000	Tennessee		15.8	15.5	16.1	22.5	21.8	23.2
2	47001	Anderson County	2	16.1	13.5	18.8	23.5	18.7	28.4
3	47003	Bedford County	6	17.7	14.5	20.9	24.3	19.0	29.6
4	47005	Benton County	7	17.9	14.2	21.7	30.9	23.4	38.4
5	47007	Bledsoe County	8	21.3	16.6	26.1	29.8	22.6	37.0
6	47009	Blount County	2	12.0	10.1	13.8	16.5	13.3	19.8
7	47011	Bradley County	3	15.7	13.4	18.0	21.5	17.5	25.5
8	47013	Campbell County	6	23.9	19.8	28.0	33.2	26.2	40.2
9	47015	Cannon County	1	15.6	12.2	18.9	22.5	17.0	28.0
10	47017	Carroll County	6	19.1	15.6	22.6	28.2	22.5	33.8
11	47019	Carter County	3	20.1	16.6	23.5	30.3	23.9	36.7
12	47021	Cheatham County	1	9.3	7.4	11.3	13.0	9.8	16.1
13	47023	Chester County	3	19.1	15.0	23.1	24.0	18.2	29.8
14	47025	Claiborne County	6	22.3	18.0	26.6	30.6	23.5	37.6
15	47027	Clay County	8	23.3	18.2	28.4	33.4	25.1	41.7
16	47029	Cocke County	6	26.6	21.8	31.5	39.9	31.5	48.3
17	47031	Coffee County	4	14.2	11.7	16.7	19.9	15.7	24.1
18	47033	Crockett County	8	18.0	14.3	21.8	23.5	17.9	29.1
19	47035	Cumberland County	7	17.0	13.6	20.4	27.1	21.4	32.8
20	47037	Davidson County	1	15.2	13.9	16.6	24.2	21.1	27.2
21	47039	Decatur County	9	18.7	14.4	22.9	27.2	20.5	33.9
22	47041	DeKalb County	6	17.3	13.7	20.9	23.0	17.8	28.3
23	47043	Dickson County	1	12.4	9.9	15.0	18.4	13.9	22.8
24	47045	Dyer County	5	16.7	13.2	20.3	24.8	18.8	30.8
25	47047	Fayette County	1	13.6	10.8	16.3	19.9	15.5	24.3
26	47049	Fentress County	9	25.0	20.0	30.1	36.5	28.0	45.0
27	47051	Franklin County	6	11.8	9.6	14.1	18.3	14.0	22.7
28	47053	Gibson County	4	16.5	13.7	19.2	25.2	20.2	30.3
29	47055	Giles County	6	15.0	12.2	17.8	21.0	16.2	25.9
30	47057	Grainger County	3	19.4	15.2	23.7	26.5	20.1	32.8
31	47059	Greene County	6	19.7	16.5	23.0	29.5	23.8	35.2
32	47061	Grundy County	8	27.0	21.4	32.6	41.0	31.7	50.3
33	47063	Hamblen County	3	16.9	13.9	19.8	22.5	17.5	27.6
34	47065	Hamilton County	2	13.5	12.1	14.9	20.0	17.0	23.0
35	47067	Hancock County	8	32.2	25.0	39.5	44.5	33.5	55.4
36	47069	Hardeman County	6	21.8	17.4	26.2	26.4	20.3	32.6
37	47071	Hardin County	6	23.0	18.7	27.3	33.9	26.3	41.6
38	47073	Hawkins County	3	16.4	13.3	19.6	23.9	18.6	29.2
39	47075	Haywood County	6	22.4	17.8	27.0	28.8	22.1	35.5
40	47077	Henderson County	6	15.3	11.9	18.7	21.5	16.2	26.9
41	47079	Henry County	7	15.1	12.1	18.1	24.7	19.1	30.4
42	47081	Hickman County	1	17.7	13.8	21.6	25.4	19.1	31.6
43	47083	Houston County	8	18.3	14.2	22.5	26.8	20.2	33.4
44	47085	Humphreys County	6	14.7	11.5	17.8	21.2	16.0	26.3
45	47087	Jackson County	8	21.8	17.2	26.4	30.6	23.4	37.7
46	47089	Jefferson County	3	17.4	14.3	20.5	24.7	19.5	30.0
47	47091	Johnson County	6	21.9	17.3	26.4	32.5	24.9	40.1
48	47093	Knox County	2	12.8	11.7	13.9	15.9	13.5	18.3
49	47095	Lake County	9	39.2	30.3	48.1	41.2	31.0	51.3
50	47097	Lauderdale County	6	26.8	22.2	31.4	38.5	31.0	45.9
51	47099	Lawrence County	6	16.2	13.0	19.5	22.8	17.4	28.2
52	47101	Lewis County	6	17.9	14.1	21.7	25.8	19.5	32.1
53	47103	Lincoln County	6	13.9	11.0	16.7	20.4	15.4	25.4
54	47105	Loudon County	2	11.1	8.7	13.4	17.6	13.4	21.9
55	47107	McMinn County	4	18.1	15.0	21.3	23.6	18.4	28.8
56	47109	McNairy County	6	19.1	15.2	23.1	26.2	20.1	32.3
57	47111	Macon County	1	18.6	14.9	22.3	26.1	20.1	32.2
58	47113	Madison County	3	18.8	16.1	21.5	24.3	19.5	29.1
59	47115	Marion County	2	14.0	11.2	16.9	21.9	16.7	27.1
60	47117	Marshall County	6	13.3	10.5	16.1	18.6	14.2	22.9
61	47119	Maury County	4	12.9	10.6	15.3	16.8	13.1	20.5
62	47121	Meigs County	8	20.9	16.3	25.6	32.4	24.5	40.3
63	47123	Monroe County	6	17.2	14.0	20.5	25.0	19.2	30.8
64	47125	Montgomery County	3	12.7	10.8	14.5	16.2	13.0	19.4
65	47127	Moore County	9	11.4	8.7	14.2	17.7	13.3	22.2
66	47129	Morgan County	6	21.4	17.2	25.6	29.0	22.3	35.6
67	47131	Obion County	7	15.9	12.7	19.1	23.3	18.1	28.5
68	47133	Overton County	7	20.0	15.9	24.0	26.2	20.1	32.3
69	47135	Perry County	8	18.2	14.0	22.3	27.3	20.6	34.1
70	47137	Pickett County	9	18.2	14.0	22.3	29.5	22.2	36.8
71	47139	Polk County	3	15.4	12.4	18.4	22.5	17.0	28.1
72	47141	Putnam County	4	21.6	18.0	25.2	31.4	25.9	36.9
73	47143	Rhea County	6	18.0	14.2	21.8	25.9	19.7	32.2
74	47145	Roane County	4	16.0	13.0	19.0	22.6	17.4	27.7
75	47147	Robertson County	1	11.6	9.7	13.5	16.7	13.6	19.7
76	47149	Rutherford County	1	11.8	10.3	13.3	13.9	11.6	16.2
77	47151	Scott County	6	21.1	16.6	25.5	30.6	23.2	38.1
78	47153	Sequatchie County	2	18.8	14.7	22.9	28.8	21.9	35.7
79	47155	Sevier County	4	12.7	10.3	15.1	20.1	15.6	24.6
80	47157	Shelby County	1	20.1	18.7	21.6	29.6	26.7	32.4
81	47159	Smith County	1	13.5	10.7	16.3	21.1	16.3	25.9
82	47161	Stewart County	3	13.6	10.6	16.6	20.1	15.1	25.1
83	47163	Sullivan County	3	15.0	13.0	17.0	22.4	18.4	26.4
84	47165	Sumner County	1	9.4	7.7	11.0	13.4	10.6	16.3
85	47167	Tipton County	1	16.5	13.6	19.4	23.7	19.0	28.4
86	47169	Trousdale County	1	15.2	11.8	18.5	21.6	16.2	27.1
87	47171	Unicoi County	3	16.3	12.9	19.8	23.3	17.6	29.0
88	47173	Union County	2	21.7	17.6	25.9	30.3	23.3	37.3
89	47175	Van Buren County	9	19.2	14.8	23.5	28.5	21.5	35.5
90	47177	Warren County	6	16.6	13.5	19.8	24.0	18.5	29.5
91	47179	Washington County	3	17.3	15.2	19.4	20.8	16.9	24.6
92	47181	Wayne County	8	20.5	16.0	25.0	27.1	20.5	33.8
93	47183	Weakley County	7	18.9	15.4	22.4	24.9	19.3	30.5
94	47185	White County	7	18.7	14.8	22.6	29.2	22.7	35.8
95	47187	Williamson County	1	5.0	4.0	6.0	5.7	4.3	7.0
96	47189	Wilson County	1	7.2	6.1	8.4	9.9	7.8	12.0

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See important notes about intercensal model-based poverty estimates.

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.