2007 County-Level Poverty Rates for South Carolina

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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	45000	South Carolina		15.1	14.8	15.5	21.1	20.4	21.8
2	45001	Abbeville County	6	17.4	14.0	20.9	21.9	16.8	27.0
3	45003	Aiken County	2	15.4	13.3	17.5	22.5	18.7	26.4
4	45005	Allendale County	6	36.8	28.3	45.2	46.0	34.6	57.3
5	45007	Anderson County	3	13.8	11.8	15.8	18.7	15.3	22.1
6	45009	Bamberg County	7	27.4	21.3	33.5	34.1	25.6	42.6
7	45011	Barnwell County	6	21.8	17.5	26.2	29.3	22.5	36.0
8	45013	Beaufort County	5	10.4	8.6	12.2	16.3	12.7	20.0
9	45015	Berkeley County	2	10.6	8.8	12.4	15.4	12.1	18.6
10	45017	Calhoun County	2	17.4	13.6	21.2	24.6	18.6	30.5
11	45019	Charleston County	2	15.2	13.6	16.8	21.9	19.0	24.9
12	45021	Cherokee County	4	16.8	14.0	19.6	23.8	18.8	28.8
13	45023	Chester County	6	20.1	16.1	24.1	27.8	21.5	34.2
14	45025	Chesterfield County	6	21.0	17.3	24.8	27.3	21.3	33.3
15	45027	Clarendon County	6	23.7	19.4	27.9	34.4	26.5	42.2
16	45029	Colleton County	6	21.7	17.6	25.8	31.4	24.2	38.6
17	45031	Darlington County	3	18.7	15.3	22.2	28.0	22.0	34.1
18	45033	Dillon County	6	27.7	22.6	32.9	39.9	31.5	48.4
19	45035	Dorchester County	2	10.7	8.8	12.6	15.5	12.3	18.7
20	45037	Edgefield County	2	18.7	14.8	22.7	23.1	17.6	28.6
21	45039	Fairfield County	2	17.8	14.4	21.2	26.5	20.0	33.0
22	45041	Florence County	3	17.8	15.4	20.1	27.9	23.3	32.4
23	45043	Georgetown County	4	17.7	14.5	20.9	26.5	20.8	32.2
24	45045	Greenville County	2	12.2	10.8	13.6	16.1	13.5	18.7
25	45047	Greenwood County	4	15.0	12.0	18.0	21.9	16.9	26.9
26	45049	Hampton County	6	21.3	16.7	25.8	29.4	22.2	36.7
27	45051	Horry County	3	14.0	12.2	15.8	23.2	19.3	27.0
28	45053	Jasper County	6	20.8	16.1	25.5	27.3	20.9	33.8
29	45055	Kershaw County	2	14.2	11.5	16.9	20.6	16.1	25.2
30	45057	Lancaster County	4	17.9	15.0	20.8	25.3	20.5	30.2
31	45059	Laurens County	2	20.2	17.2	23.2	28.2	23.2	33.3
32	45061	Lee County	6	26.2	20.6	31.8	31.6	24.1	39.2
33	45063	Lexington County	2	10.9	9.2	12.5	16.1	13.0	19.1
34	45065	McCormick County	8	19.6	15.3	23.9	31.7	24.1	39.3
35	45067	Marion County	6	24.3	19.9	28.6	35.3	27.4	43.2
36	45069	Marlboro County	6	26.0	21.0	31.1	31.7	24.1	39.2
37	45071	Newberry County	6	16.7	13.5	20.0	24.8	19.1	30.5
38	45073	Oconee County	6	13.9	11.4	16.4	19.8	15.5	24.2
39	45075	Orangeburg County	4	23.2	20.0	26.4	30.6	24.9	36.4
40	45077	Pickens County	2	16.4	14.1	18.8	19.2	15.4	23.0
41	45079	Richland County	2	12.7	11.4	14.0	15.2	12.7	17.7
42	45081	Saluda County	2	16.8	13.0	20.6	23.4	17.7	29.2
43	45083	Spartanburg County	2	13.7	12.1	15.4	18.6	15.4	21.7
44	45085	Sumter County	3	18.5	16.0	21.0	27.2	22.4	31.9
45	45087	Union County	6	17.7	14.2	21.3	24.3	18.7	30.0
46	45089	Williamsburg County	6	36.3	30.1	42.5	45.4	36.6	54.2
47	45091	York County	1	12.1	10.4	13.9	16.3	13.2	19.4

See the county-level poverty rates from the 1990 and 2000 Census of Population.

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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.