San Antonio's share of residents in poverty has decreased in recent years, but the latest data indicates San Antonio is back at the bottom.
For the 2016-2020 period, an estimated 14.2% of residents in the San Antonio metropolitan area lived in poverty on average in each of those years, according to figures from the annual American Community Survey.San Antonio has reclaimed its status as the most impoverished major city in the country, suggests new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, even as its total share of residents in poverty has decreased over the last decade.
The poverty rate is just one of hundreds of metrics the American Community Survey uses to measure social and economic life in the country.central focus” of Mayor Ron Nirenbirg’s agenda, he wrote in a statement to the San Antonio Report on Wednesday. “The poverty numbers show that our key policy initiatives — equity budgeting, ensuring access to affordable housing, education, and our unprecedented workforce development program — are on the right track.
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