2008 County-Level Poverty Rates for South Carolina

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				All people in poverty (2008)			Children ages 0-17 in poverty (2008)
					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		15.7	15.3	16.0	21.7	21.0	22.4
2	45001	Abbeville County	6	17.6	14.4	20.8	22.7	17.9	27.6
3	45003	Aiken County	2	16.3	14.1	18.5	23.7	19.8	27.6
4	45005	Allendale County	6	41.8	33.8	49.8	49.1	38.8	59.3
5	45007	Anderson County	3	14.3	12.3	16.4	20.1	16.6	23.7
6	45009	Bamberg County	7	28.0	22.6	33.4	34.9	27.3	42.5
7	45011	Barnwell County	6	22.0	17.9	26.1	30.1	23.8	36.4
8	45013	Beaufort County	5	10.1	8.6	11.7	16.7	13.5	20.0
9	45015	Berkeley County	2	14.0	12.1	15.8	19.8	16.4	23.3
10	45017	Calhoun County	2	17.2	13.8	20.6	24.3	19.0	29.7
11	45019	Charleston County	2	15.4	14.1	16.8	21.6	18.7	24.5
12	45021	Cherokee County	4	17.6	14.6	20.5	25.3	20.3	30.3
13	45023	Chester County	6	19.7	16.3	23.1	25.5	20.2	30.8
14	45025	Chesterfield County	6	20.6	17.3	23.9	28.7	23.1	34.3
15	45027	Clarendon County	6	25.0	20.9	29.1	33.4	26.7	40.0
16	45029	Colleton County	6	21.1	17.6	24.7	31.7	25.0	38.3
17	45031	Darlington County	3	21.9	18.5	25.3	32.9	27.0	38.8
18	45033	Dillon County	6	23.9	19.4	28.3	36.1	28.8	43.4
19	45035	Dorchester County	2	10.1	8.5	11.6	14.2	11.5	16.8
20	45037	Edgefield County	2	19.5	15.7	23.3	24.0	18.7	29.2
21	45039	Fairfield County	2	21.7	17.7	25.8	29.4	23.2	35.7
22	45041	Florence County	3	18.2	16.0	20.5	25.5	21.8	29.2
23	45043	Georgetown County	4	17.9	15.0	20.9	27.9	22.4	33.5
24	45045	Greenville County	2	13.8	12.5	15.2	18.5	16.0	21.0
25	45047	Greenwood County	4	16.8	14.0	19.5	24.1	19.9	28.2
26	45049	Hampton County	6	23.4	19.2	27.6	31.5	25.1	37.8
27	45051	Horry County	3	14.5	12.7	16.4	22.3	18.4	26.1
28	45053	Jasper County	6	19.8	16.0	23.6	29.1	22.7	35.4
29	45055	Kershaw County	2	13.9	11.5	16.3	19.9	15.8	24.0
30	45057	Lancaster County	4	16.9	14.3	19.6	21.7	17.6	25.8
31	45059	Laurens County	2	18.3	15.3	21.3	26.5	21.4	31.6
32	45061	Lee County	6	27.6	22.2	33.1	34.5	27.2	41.9
33	45063	Lexington County	2	10.6	9.1	12.0	14.4	11.9	17.0
34	45065	McCormick County	8	19.5	15.6	23.4	29.4	22.8	35.9
35	45067	Marion County	6	24.1	19.9	28.2	37.8	30.3	45.3
36	45069	Marlboro County	6	27.5	22.7	32.3	34.4	27.4	41.4
37	45071	Newberry County	6	16.5	13.4	19.6	23.2	18.3	28.2
38	45073	Oconee County	6	16.1	13.6	18.7	23.0	18.6	27.4
39	45075	Orangeburg County	4	23.8	20.3	27.2	29.9	24.4	35.3
40	45077	Pickens County	2	16.5	14.3	18.6	17.9	14.7	21.2
41	45079	Richland County	2	14.3	12.7	15.9	18.2	15.3	21.0
42	45081	Saluda County	2	16.7	13.4	20.1	24.7	19.3	30.0
43	45083	Spartanburg County	2	14.0	12.4	15.7	19.6	16.6	22.6
44	45085	Sumter County	3	19.5	16.9	22.1	28.3	23.4	33.1
45	45087	Union County	6	18.0	14.7	21.3	26.4	21.0	31.8
46	45089	Williamsburg County	6	30.5	25.6	35.3	44.7	36.7	52.6
47	45091	York County	1	12.0	10.5	13.4	15.9	13.4	18.4

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

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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.