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WARREN COUNTY, OH -- NEWSBREAK recently released a story, Cities in Ohio With the Most Living In Poverty. In the piece it givesthe 20 cities in Ohio that have the most people living in poverty, and two of the cities are places that Warren County sits in between. The story placed Dayton as #12 and Cincinnati as #18… with Oxford, where Miami University sits, as #1.
While no cities in Warren County made that list, there are, however, residents who reside in Warren County and live in poverty.
But what is poverty or how does the government recognize poverty?
According to the Institute For Research On Poverty, “The Census Bureau determines poverty status by using an official poverty measure (OPM) that compares pre-tax cash income against a threshold that is set at three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963 and adjusted for family size.The OPM uses calculations of these three elements—income, threshold, and family—to estimate what percentage of the population is poor.”
The poverty threshold today for a family of four is roughly $26,000 annually; for an individual, that number is $13,000.
As a whole, Warren County Ohio with its population of 242,337 from the 2020 Census, the poverty level is 6.2% (or 15,025 People) compared to the State's, which has a total population of 11,799,448 with a poverty level of 13.4 % (or 1,581,126 People).
Warren Couny’s Median household income is over $30,000 more than the States, for it is $95,817 while Ohio’s is $62,262. Also, when it comes to having Health Insurance Coverage, Warren County residents numbers fair better than the State's number with 3.6% of Warren County residents are without Health Insurance compared to State of Ohio's number as a whole being 6.5% of its resident's are without health insurance.
Ranked from the least amount of poverty in its jurisdiction to the highest from data taken from the US 2020 Census:
#13 HAMILTON TWP —Total Population: 30,587
#12 CLEAR CREEK TWP — Total Population: 36,238
#11 MASSIE TOWNSHIP — Total Population: 1,195
#10 WASHINGTON TWP — Total Population: 2,752
#9 MASON — Total Population: 34,792
#8 DEERFIELD TWP — Total Population: 40,525
#7 TURTLECREEK TWP — Total Population: 17,644
#6 HARLAN TWP — Total Population: 4,929
#5 UNION TWP — Total Population: 6,251
#4 WAYNE TOWNSHIP — Total Population: 8658
#3 LEBANON CITY — Total Population: 20,841
#2 SALEM TWP — Total Population: 5,215
#1 FRANKLIN TWP — Total Population: 31,676