Poverty Level in Illinois

The poverty level in Illinois is different depending on the number of people living in a single household. As reported on the illinoislegalaid.org website, For one person, the poverty level is an annual income of $10,830.00 or less. For two people, the level is a combined annual income of $14,570. For three people, it is $18,310.00 and for four people it is $22,050.00, and so on. The website gives you the poverty level for households consisting of up to 10 people.

As reported on city-data.com, residents in chicago living below the poverty level was 20.5% in 2007 and 11.9% for the state as a whole. It is stated that residents in Chicago with incomes below 50% of the poverty level in 2007, was at 9.1%. As for the whole state it was at 5.3%. Poor male residents in Chicago consisted mostly of those under the age of 5 up until 18 years of age. This shows that at this time, poor males were mostly children and adolescents. As for female residents, the percentages were more scattered; however, like the poor males, the poor females also consisted of those under 5 years of age up until 18 years of age. The highest percentage for males were between the ages of 12-14 years old, and for females, 6-11 years old.