U.S. metropolitan areas with the lowest middle-income population 2014

This statistic shows a ranking of metropolitan areas with the lowest shares of middle-income adults in the United States in 2014. In 2014, the Monroe metropolitan area in Los Angeles was last in the list with 42 percent of the adult population living in the middle-income tier.

Metropolitan areas with the lowest share of middle-income population in the U.S. in 2014

Characteristic	Share of adult population
El Centro, CA	45%
Visalia-Porterville, CA	45%
Bakersfield, CA	44%
Fresno, CA	44%
Champaign-Urbana, IL	44%
Laredo, TX	44%
Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	43%
Auburn-Opelika, AL	43%
Midland, TX	43%
Monroe, LA	42%

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Release date

May 2016

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2014

Age group

18 years and older

Supplementary notes

Middle-income adults are defined as adults whose annual household income is two-thirds to double the national median, after incomes have been adjusted for household size.
For example a single person upper-income household has an annual household income of at least 24,042 U.S. dollars. A family of three would have an income of at least 41,641 U.S. dollars.

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