Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance in the USA

by Eduardo Petazze
The United States Census Bureau release its Annual Population Reports, for 2012 (pdf, 88 pages):
Press releases:
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage (English version))
Ingreso, pobreza y cobertura de seguro mdico (Spanish version)
Two summary tables:
All People (000)
Avg. of People
Year
Below
per
households
Total
%
poverty level
2012 310,648
46,496 14.97%
2.54
2011 308,456
46,247 14.99%
2.55
2010 306,130
46,343 15.14%
2.55
2000 281,475
32,907 11.69%
2.60
1990 251,192
35,708 14.22%
2.66
1980 227,157
31,822 14.01%
2.76
1970 204,554
25,559 12.49%
3.16
Gini index: Own calculation

Year
2012
2011
2010
2000
1990
1980
1970

Mean
71,274
71,133
70,970
76,179
63,698
55,880
52,778

All Households (000)

Total Gini Index Gini Ratio
122,459
121,084
119,927
108,209
94,312
82,368
64,778

47.598%
47.597%
46.874%
46.050%
42.782%
40.342%

47.7%
47.7%
47.0%
46.2%
42.8%
40.3%
39.4%

Income (all households) Constant (2012) dollars

Lowest
2nd
3rd
4th f
Highest
Median
fifth
fifth
fifth
ifth
fifth
51,017
11,490
29,696
51,179
82,098 181,905
51,100
11,474
29,814
50,883
81,753 181,739
51,892
11,578
30,047
51,777
83,065 178,384
55,987
13,543
33,815
56,311
87,537 189,692
50,994
12,204
30,706
50,718
76,468 148,397
46,985
11,435
28,459
46,961
69,186 123,358
N/D
10,512
28,475
45,852
64,633 114,421

Top
5%
318,052
317,950
302,449
336,533
236,306
184,343
175,624