1990 and 2000 Census Poverty Data

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			All people in poverty		Related children under 18 years¹
			1989	1999	1989	1999
	FIPS*	AREA	Percent	Percent	Percent	Percent
1	02000	Alaska	9.0	9.4	10.9	11.2
2	02013	Aleutians East Borough	11.9	21.8	9.5	6.8
3	02016	Aleutians West Census Area	9.0	11.9	5.6	6.0
4	02020	Anchorage Borough	7.1	7.3	8.9	8.8
5	02050	Bethel Census Area	30.0	20.6	33.4	24.5
6	02060	Bristol Bay Borough	5.1	9.5	3.8	10.7
7	02068	Denali Borough		7.9		10.2
8	02070	Dillingham Census Area	24.6	21.4	29.3	26.6
9	02090	Fairbanks North Star Borough	7.6	7.8	8.4	8.4
10	02100	Haines Borough	9.2	10.7	11.9	14.6
11	02110	Juneau Borough	5.6	6.0	6.9	6.7
12	02122	Kenai Peninsula Borough	7.7	10.0	9.2	12.0
13	02130	Ketchikan Gateway Borough	4.2	6.5	3.3	7.5
14	02150	Kodiak Island Borough	5.5	6.6	5.1	6.7
15	02164	Lake and Peninsula Borough	20.0	18.9	21.0	21.0
16	02170	Matanuska-Susitna Borough	9.4	11.0	10.0	13.2
17	02180	Nome Census Area	22.4	17.4	24.4	20.0
18	02185	North Slope Borough	8.7	9.1	9.7	9.0
19	02188	Northwest Arctic Borough	18.5	17.4	21.4	19.7
20	02201	Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area	9.1	12.1	11.0	13.7
21	02220	Sitka Borough	4.8	7.8	4.3	9.2
22	02231	Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area	8.9		10.8
23	02232	Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area		12.8		15.0
24	02240	Southeast Fairbanks Census Area	14.2	18.9	15.7	20.8
25	02261	Valdez-Cordova Census Area	8.9	9.8	9.4	9.7
26	02270	Wade Hampton Census Area	31.0	26.2	35.5	29.4
27	02280	Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area	5.7	7.9	8.3	9.3
28	02282	Yakutat Borough		13.5		22.5
29	02290	Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	26.0	23.8	30.2	26.7

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1990 and 2000 Census of Population. See important notes about decennial and model-based intercensal poverty estimates.

* These FIPS codes uniquely identify each county by State and are part of the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST], U.S. Department of Commerce. Of the 5 digit codes, the first 2 digits are the State code and the last three digits are the county code. For States in the 1 to 9 code range, the FIPS code is only 4 digits long as the leading zero of the 2-digit State code is not shown. For more information on FIPS code standards see the [NIST FIPS] publication page and look for FIPSPUB5-2 and FIPSPUB6-4.

¹Related children include all people under 18 years old related to the householder, regardless of their marital status. Excluded are spouses of the householder.