cleveland poverty rate
CLEVELAND, Ohio â Ten year's after Cleveland made national headlines as the poorest big city in America, not a lot has changed in the poverty rate. About one in three city residents remains in poverty; the rate exceeds 50 percent for children. New census survey results released Thursday show Cleveland's poverty rate at 36.9 percent â plus or minus two percentage points. Ten years ago, the rate was 31.1 percent. Broken out for cities of at least 250,000 people as of a decade ago, Cleveland ranked No. 1 for poverty.