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Poverty Rates for the 100 Largest Cities and Their Suburbs, 1990 and 2000 & Percent Change, Ranked by Lowest Rate

 
2000
1990
% Chng NAPC
Member		 Initiatives
and
Interventions
  City ST Rank Value Rank Value
1 Anchorage    AK 1 7 1 7 3.9%
  Suburbs Excluding City      
2 Colorado Springs    CO 2 9 6 11 -20.0%
  Suburbs Excluding City   24 7 40 9 -28.6%    
3 San Jose    CA 3 9 3 9 -5.2%
  Suburbs Excluding City   31 7 16 6 12.5%    
4 Norfolk/Va Beach/Chesapeake 1    VA 4 10 4 11 -4.9%
  Suburbs Excluding City   3 -10 57 11    
5 Lincoln    NE 5 10 7 11 -10.4%
  Suburbs Excluding City   8 5 2 4 15.4%    
6 Charlotte    NC 6 11 5 11 -2.0%
  Suburbs Excluding City   48 9 38 9 -3.7%    
7 Wichita    KS 7 11 16 13 -10.2%
  Suburbs Excluding City      
8 Omaha    NE 8 11 17 13 -10.3%
  Suburbs Excluding City   9 5 17 6 -17.6%    
9 San Francisco    CA 9 11 18 13 -10.6%
  Suburbs Excluding City   44 8 19 7 24.9%    
10 Des Moines    IA 10 11 19 13 -11.9%
  Suburbs Excluding City   7 5 5 5 -8.1%    
11 Raleigh    NC 11 12 11 12 -3.0%
  Suburbs Excluding City   71 15 62 12 23.1%    
12 Honolulu    HI 12 12 2 8 40.1%
  Suburbs Excluding City   46 9 21 7 25.8%    
13 Seattle    WA 13 12 14 12 -4.7%
  Suburbs Excluding City   51 9 52 10 -10.5%    
14 Indianapolis    IN 14 12 15 13 -5.4%
  Suburbs Excluding City   13 6 22 7 -20.7%    
15 Las Vegas    NV 15 12 9 12 3.8%
  Suburbs Excluding City   59 11 54 11 .1%    
16 Jacksonville    FL 16 12 20 13 -6.1%
  Suburbs Excluding City   39 8 43 9 -17.5%    
17 Greensboro    NC 17 12 10 12 5.9%
  Suburbs Excluding City   58 10 45 10 5.3%    
18 Denver/Aurora    CO 18 13 24 14 -10.8%
  Suburbs Excluding City   10 5 18 7 -20.5%    
19 Fort Wayne    IN 19 13 8 12 8.5%
  Suburbs Excluding City   11 5 9 5 -2.5%    
20 Lexington    KY 20 13 26 14 -8.9%
  Suburbs Excluding City   65 12 71 16 -25.7%    
21 Portland    OR 21 13 28 15 -10.0%
  Suburbs Excluding City   22 6 50 10 -35.0%    
22 Pheonix/Mesa/Glendale/Scottsdale    AZ 22 13 13 12 6.6%
  Suburbs Excluding City   1 -31 49 10 -11.1%    
23 Nashville    TN 23 13 21 13 -.9%
  Suburbs Excluding City   40 8 44 9 -18.3%    
24 Albuquerque    NM 24 14 23 14 -3.2%
  Suburbs Excluding City   70 14 72 17 -16.3%    
25 Fort Worth/Arlington    TX 25 14 25 14 -2.9%
  Suburbs Excluding City   32 7 35 8 -12.0%    
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Footnotes
1 Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Chesapeake, VA was Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Newport News, VA MSA Excluding City in 1980

Notes
* Suburbs refers to the MSA excluding the city(ies).
* Where two or more cities are shown together, they belong to the same Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). In these cases, the city data were combined to create a single urban entity.
* Tabulations are based on numbers with more decimal places than shown.

Source
* Andrulis, Dennis, and Goodman, Nanette. Social Change and Health Landscape of Urban and Suburban America. Health Forum, Inc., 1999 and from the Suny Downstate Medical Center website: http://www.downstate.edu/urbansoc_healthdata/Urban Center Website/web design2/Home Page.htm
* Tabulations based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 1980, 1990, 2000.
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