National Poverty Level 2024 Us Census Bureau. In 2024 hhs has set the federal poverty level for all contiguous 48 states, puerto rico, the district of columbia and all u.s. The official poverty rate in 2022 was 11.5 percent, with 37.9 million people in poverty.

These changes helped send child poverty (as measured by the supplemental poverty measure) to a record low 5.2% in 2021, a drop of 46% from 2020, when the rate. The poverty rate for american children was 12.4%, the lowest.