These American Cities Are Getting Poorer

14. Cleveland, Ohio

Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that Cleveland had the highest poverty rate in the country in 2019, beating out Detroit. Of the total number of 114,000 people living in poverty, 6,500 of the adults were also working a full-time job for the previous year and 37,7000, or 46%, were children. Ohio is the only state with more than one city with populations over 300,000 that have the highest number of its residents living in poverty.

• Change in per capita income: -$3,396
• Change in median household income: -$37,290
• Change in population: -363,505
• Change in poverty rate: 284.44%