The poverty rate is the percentage of people living below the poverty level or “threshold.” Each year, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget establishes a series of poverty thresholds for different family sizes and ages of household heads. Among Boundary residents, the overall poverty rate . . .
- was 14.0 percent in 2020, 15.7 percent in 1999, and 14.0 percent in 1989.
- was 14.0 percent compared to 10.1 percent in Idaho in 2020.
- ranked 9th - from highest to lowest - out of the 44 counties in 2020.