High-Poverty Counties in Appalachia, 1960 and 2019-2023

This web mapping application displays maps of high-poverty counties from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 1960 census and the most current five-year period of the American Community Survey (2019-2023). The application also provides charts that display the poverty rate for each county and the county’s rate as a percentage of the U.S. average for all decades and non-overlapping five-year periods between 1960 and today.