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Income, poverty, and inequality estimates from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey 5-year release for the five New York City counties (boroughs). Each estimate is accompanied by its 90% margin of error, with the suffix _moe. The county-level counterpart of nyc_tract_acs_income_df. Joins to nycmaps::nyc_boros_sf via the county column, which matches nycmaps::nyc_boros$short_county_name.

Usage

nyc_county_acs_income_df

Format

A tibble with 5 rows and 16 columns:

geoid

5-character county GEOID.

county

NYC county (borough) name derived from geoid.

name

County label as returned by the Census Bureau.

med_hhinc

Median household income, inflation-adjusted dollars (B19013_001).

med_family_income

Median family income (B19113_001).

per_capita_income

Per capita income (B19301_001).

gini

Gini index of income inequality (B19083_001).

poverty_total

Population for whom poverty status is determined (B17001_001).

poverty_below

Population with income in the past 12 months below the poverty level (B17001_002).

med_hhinc_moe, med_family_income_moe, per_capita_income_moe, gini_moe, poverty_total_moe, poverty_below_moe

Margins of error for the corresponding estimates.

poverty_rate

poverty_below / poverty_total. NA when poverty_total == 0.

Source

US Census Bureau, 2020-2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B19013, B19113, B19301, B19083, B17001. Retrieved via tidycensus::get_acs(). https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs