Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)
Change in Number of Children in Poverty from 2001-2002
Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Geographic Area: Pennsylvania Counties
  Related children age 5-17 in families in poverty in 2001
State/ County 2001 2002 Change from 2001- 2002
Pennsylvania 259,102 268,293 9,191
Adams County 1,406 1,323 -83
Allegheny County 23,358 24,217 859
Armstrong County 1,624 1,609 -15
Beaver County 3,341 3,449 108
Bedford County 1,187 1,243 56
Berks County 7,263 7,764 501
Blair County 3,203 3,283 80
Bradford County 1,603 1,543 -60
Bucks County 5,469 5,419 -50
Butler County 2,574 2,246 -328
Cambria County 3,259 3,251 -8
Cameron County 132 141 9
Carbon County 1,128 1,128 0
Centre County 1,594 1,604 10
Chester County 4,594 4,391 -203
Clarion County 862 870 8
Clearfield County 2,063 2,123 60
Clinton County 963 960 -3
Columbia County 1,229 1,118 -111
Crawford County 2,725 2,796 71
Cumberland County 2,089 1,931 -158
Dauphin County 5,209 4,760 -449
Delaware County 9,020 9,479 459
Elk County 519 519 0
Erie County 7,632 8,016 384
Fayette County 5,099 5,271 172
Forest County 162 143 -19
Franklin County 2,308 2,321 13
Fulton County 327 322 -5
Greene County 1,196 1,179 -17
Huntingdon County 1,021 1,069 48
Indiana County 2,361 2,307 -54
Jefferson County 1,222 1,255 33
Juniata County 475 459 -16
Lackawanna County 3,593 3,711 118
Lancaster County 8,857 9,283 426
Lawrence County 2,422 2,444 22
Lebanon County 2,102 2,226 124
Lehigh County 6,309 6,387 78
Luzerne County 5,751 5,928 177
Lycoming County 2,728 2,801 73
Mc Kean County 1,144 1,132 -12
Mercer County 3,235 3,340 105
Mifflin County 1,370 1,439 69
Monroe County 2,952 2,956 4
Montgomery County 6,315 6,700 385
Montour County 356 327 -29
Northampton County 3,728 3,544 -184
Northumberland County 2,178 1,984 -194
Perry County 798 778 -20
Philadelphia County 67,063 73,967 6,904
Pike County 967 922 -45
Potter County 576 537 -39
Schuylkill County 2,617 2,577 -40
Snyder County 897 793 -104
Somerset County 1,991 2,021 30
Sullivan County 154 146 -8
Susquehanna County 1,113 1,113 0
Tioga County 1,163 1,105 -58
Union County 631 675 44
Venango County 1,598 1,592 -6
Warren County 983 1,023 40
Washington County 3,540 3,511 -29
Wayne County 1,216 1,177 -39
Westmoreland County 6,017 6,086 69
Wyoming County 583 576 -7
York County 5,938 5,983 45
Prepared by: The Pennsylvania State Data Center on December 20, 2004