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PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> – Philadelphia<\/a> is no longer the poorest big city in the United States<\/a>, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> released earlier this week, though it didn’t move far. But, poverty across the U.S. is down from last year, Census estimates say.<\/p>\n But who took the top spot? Let’s take a look:<\/p>\n Poverty in the U.S. <\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n The U.S. Census Bureau released new data on income and poverty across the country on Tuesday, finding that national poverty is down slightly, by less than a percentage point from 2023 to 2024. The bureau estimates that nearly 36 million people lived below the poverty line in 2024.<\/p>\n SUGGESTED: <\/strong>Most Americans believe personal choices keep people in poverty, poll finds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Local perspective:<\/p>\n Data from the census and the city of Philadelphia show that the poverty rate has dropped for three straight years.<\/p>\n For years, Philadelphia has had the highest poverty rate of the 10 most populous cities<\/a> in the country. In 2022, more than 23% of Philadelphians lived in poverty. That number dropped to just over 20% in 2023, and in 2024, that number dropped even further, to 19.7%. With Philly’s latest drop, Houston (at 21.20%) has taken the top spot on the list.<\/p>\n In fact, of the 10 most populous cities in the U.S., the poverty rate dropped in nine of them from 2023 to 2024, with Houston being the only exception.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this story is from a United States Census Bureau report published on Sept. 9, 2025, and a report on racial equity in the city of Philadelphia published in August 2022.<\/p>\n Economy<\/a>Philadelphia<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia is no longer the poorest big city in the United States, according to new…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":222772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,6459,50,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,12286,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-222771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-money","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-us-economy","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115195364204403126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}