Fig. 1.1 Overall poverty rates in New York City and nationally (2015-2024)
Note: In 2020, the Poverty Tracker sampling design changed to include an oversample of New Yorkers of Chinese descent, including
those who speak Mandarin. Thus, pre-2020 results are not directly comparable to results from 2020 to the present, which we signify
with a dashed line between 2019 and 2020 in the New York City trend line. See Appendix B for additional details.
Poverty rates for 2023 differ slightly from those published in Volume 7 of the “State of Poverty and Disadvantage in New York City”
because the 2023 sample composition changed with the inclusion of a new sampling frame that was not available at the time of
original publication. See Appendix B for additional information.
Source: New York City results based on annual Poverty Tracker survey data, second through sixth Poverty Tracker cohorts. National
results based on authors’ calculations using the Current Population Survey, retrieved from IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota,
www.ipums.org.