One-Fourth of Kids in Immigrant Families Are Living in Poverty
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In 2015, one in four children lived in immigrant families in the United States. These children are more likely to live in poverty than their peers from U.S.-born families, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Center.
Statistically speaking: 25% of children in immigrant families live in poverty, whereas 19% of children in U.S.-born families do. Poverty rates for these children ranged from a low of 11% in New Hampshire to a high of 35% in Alabama and Arizona.
Living in poverty — for kids in U.S.-born and immigrant families alike — can have a wide range of negative effects on a child’s physical health, mental well-being and academic success.
Explore more family nativity data — at the state and national level — in the KIDS COUNT Data Center.
Children in immigrant families
Children living below the poverty threshold by family nativity
Children whose parents all have less than a high school degree by family nativity