# Poverty rate

Shows what share of people in the surrounding postcode live below the Census Bureau poverty threshold.

- API name: `poverty_rate`
- Category: Financial
- Postcodes with a value: 33.6K (98.5%)
- Latest collection: Dec 31, 2024, refreshed yearly
- How values combine: Read from a single source field.
- Middle 50% of values: 0.06 to 0.17

## Links

- [Catalog page](/catalog/v2/poverty_rate)
- [Published statistics (JSON)](https://static.faraday.ai/figv2/poverty_rate.json)
- [API reference](/docs/reference/getattribute)