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The U.S. Census Bureau released today statistics concerning the results of the 2006 American Community Survey, including income, poverty, and earnings data for states and metropolitan areas, counties, cities, and American Indian/Alaska Native areas and all congressional districts. One thing that this year's survey included that wasn't in the past was populations in group quarters, such as prisons, college dorms, military barracks, and nursing homes.



Topping this year's list as the nation's poorest big city is our neighbor to the north, Detroit, Michigan. Cleveland can breathe a sign of relief as they have now dropped out from the number one spot down to just the fourth poorest big city. It's still nothing to write home about, but hey, at least we're not the worst. However, Ohio as a whole didn't fare to well, with two of its largest cities ranking amongst the top five poorest cities.



For large cities with populations of 250,000 or more, the highest poverty rates were seen in Detroit, MI; Buffalo, NY; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Miami, FL; and St. Louis, MO. The lowest poverty rate was found in Plano, TX.
Cleveland and Ohio's high poverty rates are matched by equally low levels of income. For large cities, Cleveland had the lowest median household income. Following Cleveland on the list were Miami, Buffalo, and Detroit. The highest median household incomes were seen in Plano, TX and San Jose, CA.



For smaller cities (65,000 to 249,000), Ohio also found one of its cities on the top of the lowest income list. The lowest median household incomes in smaller cities were found in Youngstown, OH; Muncie, IN; Camden, NJ; Brownsville, TX; Syracuse, NY; College Station, TX; and Lawrence, MA. Yorba Linda, CA had the highest median household income.