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Census Report: Phoenix Child Poverty Rate Higher Than National Average

Phoenix has a child-poverty rate higher than the national average, according to numbers released Thursday in the U.S. Census Bureau's 2014 American Community Survey.

The survey compiled data on 40 topics, including health insurance, income and poverty.

“Almost one in four children in the Phoenix metro area are in poverty so the poverty rate for children didn’t increase from last year but it was 24.7 percent, and that compares to the national child poverty rate of 21.7 percent, so it’s three percentage points higher than the national," said Branch Trudi Renwick, Census Bureau chief of the Poverty Statistics.

The survey also included the number of Phoenix residents without health care, which decreased by 3 percent from 2013 to 2014. The number of uninsured Phoenix citizens is now at 13.3 percent. Uninsured citizens nationally also fell by 3 percent.

Chloe Nordquist was an intern at KJZZ in 2015.