Talk:List of lowest-income places in the United States

message: "The 4th poorest is 35th", what does this mean?? 69.140.225.153 (talk) 20:20, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: This list uses data from the 2000 census, under the 2010 census it's completely different. In lieu of replacing it completely (it's possible there is some qualitative difference between both sets of data that I'm not seeing), I'm going to create a new subsection for the updated list, based on data from the 2010 census. And I'll upload a .csv copy of the data I got from the census website as reference. Black-Velvet 12:59, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I commented out the updated 2010 data for the time being, as I have not been able to verify the numbers given. The first table one encounters in this article is for median household income, but it appears that that is not what is shown here. Is it per capita income? Even if it is, I haven't been able to find the table that has these figures. As you may know, the 2010 census did not collect income data, so the figures are either from the American Community Survey or some other source. Could you post a link to the source that you used? Thanks. --Ken Gallager (talk) 19:25, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: New data based on the 2010 census

message: "Poor" is a subjective term.  Median household income alone shouldn't be used as an indicator of whether or not a place is "poor."  Cost of living and poverty rate should be taken into account.  Bms4880 (talk) 23:36, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: What's going on with this article?  Whence come the data?  The sole citation in the main section goes to a page that currently lists nationwide data only; since the Census Bureau generally puts new data in new pages, getting rid of old data by taking down pages instead of changing them, I strongly doubt that they previously had all this information on that page.  Secondly, the table mixes race and ethnicity in the United States Census; Hispanic/Latino status is not racial but ethnic, and someone identifying as either one is also identified under a racial category, so in official Census data, one will always get 100% (aside from rounding errors) when adding White, Black or African American, Asian, Native American, Pacific Islander, and (if applicable) Other race.  This table, on the other hand, treats Hispanic/Latino as a race; in an extreme case, Las Palmas-Juarez, Texas has just 5.0% of its residents as members of any race, and 95.0% of its residents are Hispanic or Latino.  Nyttend (talk) 22:23, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  All data in dispute 

message: This article lists the poorest places in the United States using as its source the American Community Survey (ACS) of 2017.  I can't find the tables of the ACS online to verify the source of the data -- but to put it mildly the statistics cited in this article are wildly divergent from other available statistics.  Some of the median household income statistics cited for some places in this article would be more representative of the poorest places in the world rather than the United States. Yes, we have inequality in the U.S., and, yes, we have extreme poverty in some places but to accept that there are places in the U.S. with median household incomes of 3, 4, or 5 thousand dollars annually is just plain ridiculous.  (2017 media household income in the U.S. as a whole is correctly cited as $57,652 in the article)  
To give just a couple of examples of what I have called ridiculous statistics in this article. the median family income in Villanueva CDP, New Mexico cited in this article is $4,658 dollars. However, according to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2021 the median family income in Villanueva was $17,539.  Villanueva is indeed one of the poorest places in the U.S. but nothing has happened in Villanueva between 2017 and 2021 to account for the 400 percent difference in the statistics. The 2021 estimate is believable; the 2017 estimate in this article is not believable.
To given another example of a ridiculous stat, Lower Santan Village, Arizona according to this article had a median household income of $5,857 in 2017.  But, the U.S. Census gives Lower Santan Village a median household income of $26,146 in 2021. Again, nothing has changed in Lower Santan to account for a nearly 500 percent increase in median household income in four years.  
Some of the data in the existing article regarding the median household income of Puerto Rican communities may be accurate.  However, sorting out what is good data, what is bad, and updating the whole would be a monumental task.  Moreover, there are other similar articles on Wikipedia which cover similar material. List of lowest-income counties in the United States is one.
I'm not sure what the best remedy for this article is:  (1) delete the whole article; (2) delete the section on poorest places; (or) (3) put tags on the article concerning its unreliability.  Opinions? Smallchief (talk) 12:55, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputing accuracy of article and proposing its possible deletion