Census Snapshot: Poverty Rate Of Franklin’s School-Aged Children Increases

December 17, 2016 General News

More than 9 percent of the township’s school-aged children lived in poverty in 2015, according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Graphic: U.S. Census Bureau.

Nearly one in every 10 township school-aged child lived in poverty in 2015, a figure that is 41 percent higher than in all of Somerset County.

In its annual Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates for 2015, released Dec. 14, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 9.4 percent of children aged 5 to 17 years in the township live below the poverty level. That’s a slight increase from the 2014 figure of 9.3 percent.

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Census Snapshot: Poverty Rate Of Franklin’s School-Aged Children Increases

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