Poverty rate married-couple families U.S. 2023

In 2023, around 4.6 percent of married-couple families in the United States lived below the national poverty level. This is a slight decrease from the previous year, when five percent of married-couple families lived below the national poverty level.

Poverty rate of married-couple families in the United States who live below the poverty line from 1990 to 2023

Characteristic	Percentage of poor married-couple families
1990	5.7%
1991	6%
1992	6.4%
1993	6.5%
1994	6.1%
1995	5.6%
1996	5.6%
1997	5.2%
1998	5.3%
1999	4.9%
2000	4.7%
2001	4.9%
2002	5.3%
2003	5.4%
2004	5.5%
2005	5.1%
2006	4.9%
2007	4.9%
2008	5.5%
2009	5.8%
2010	6.3%
2011	6.2%
2012	6.3%
2013	5.8%
2014	6.2%
2015	5.4%
2016	5.1%
2017	4.7%
2018	4.7%
2019	4%
2020	4.7%
2021	4.8%
2022	5%
2023	4.6%

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Release date

September 2024

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Region

United States

Survey time period

1990 to 2023

Supplementary notes

The Census Bureau defines a family as follows: "A family is a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family."

Families as of March of the following year.

Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter.

Data prior to 2017 can be found here.

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