2021’s Neediest Cities – WalletHub Study

With the giving season reminding us to be selfless and 38 million people in the U.S. lacking access to adequate food, the personal-finance website WalletHub followed up on its report on the Most Charitable States for 2022 with an in-depth look at 2021’s Neediest Cities, as well as accompanying videos and expert commentary.

Hoping to inspire goodwill toward the less fortunate, WalletHub compared more than 180 U.S. cities across 28 key metrics to determine where Americans are most economically disadvantaged. The data set includes factors like the child poverty rate, food-insecurity rate and uninsured rate.

Neediest Cities
1. Detroit, MI 11. Laredo, TX
2. Brownsville, TX 12. Shreveport, LA
3. Cleveland, OH 13. Miami, FL
4. Fresno, CA 14. Memphis, TN
5. Gulfport, MS 15. Jackson, MS
6. Los Angeles, CA 16. Birmingham, AL
7. Newark, NJ 17. Philadelphia, PA
8. Baltimore, MD 18. Richmond, VA
9. New Orleans, LA 19. Hialeah, FL
10. St. Louis, MO 20. Augusta, GA

Key Stats

  • Fremont, California, has the lowest child poverty rate, 3.09 percent, which is 16.2 times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest at 50.19 percent.
  • Pearl City, Hawaii, has the lowest adult poverty rate, 3.94 percent, which is 7.8 times lower than in Huntington, West Virginia, the city with the highest at 30.71 percent.
  • Overland Park, Kansas, has the fewest homeless persons (per 1,000 residents), 0.30, which is 78.1 times fewer than in Fresno, California, the city with the most at 23.42.
  • Lincoln, Nebraska, has the lowest unemployment rate, 1.30 percent, which is nine times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest at 11.70 percent.
  • Pearl City, Hawaii, has the lowest share of uninsured residents, 1.50 percent, which is 20.7 times lower than in Brownsville, Texas, the city with the highest at 31.10 percent.

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