Poverty Rates by County for Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

Poverty Rates by County for Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

This map includes data on the rate of poverty in each respective county in the states Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.

The map shows that the rates of poverty are higher in the counties in the middle of the map, near where all the states are touching and toward the southern parts of New Mexico. This is important to show if there are any correlations between poverty rates and suicide rates,

Sophie Jarvis

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County data: TIGER/Line shapefiles, accessed March 29, 2021. Bureau, US Census. “TIGER/Line Shapefiles.” The United States Census Bureau, 14 Dec. 2020, www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html.

Poverty data: Census data from 2018, Accessed April 5, 2021. Bureau, US Census. “Data.” Census.gov, www.census.gov/data.html.

Website maintained by Chantel Sloan, Associate Professor in the Public Health Department at Brigham Young University

Dates included in this map are from 2018.

Sophie Jarvis

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The map covers all of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah