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Official poverty rate, 2025

What will the official U.S. poverty rate be for calendar year 2025 as published by the U.S. Census Bureau?

current forecast · 80% CI10.4%
9.8%10.4%11.1%
history:2021: 11.6%2022: 11.5%2023: 11.1%2024: 10.6%

Trend

history + forecast
9.510.311.111.920212024Sep 202610.4%
historyforecast path80% interval

static prototype estimate · seeded forecast value

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201 CDF points
ledger fact
census.official_poverty_rate.2025

Key drivers

  • Pretax cash income growth
  • Employment and hours worked
  • Household composition
  • CPI-U poverty-threshold indexation

Resolution

source
U.S. Census Bureau, Poverty in the United States: 2025
expected
September 15, 2026
rule
Resolves to the official poverty rate for all people in calendar year 2025 in the Census Poverty in the United States report, expected in September 2026. This uses the official poverty measure, not the Supplemental Poverty Measure.
Data point
census.official_poverty_rate.2025

Analyst agent · reasoning trace

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