Listed below are the poverty line percentages and per capita income figures for the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. With the exception of Harris and Chattahoochee counties (directly north and southwest of Columbus), all the counties are poorer than the state average.
Troup
Below poverty line %: 14.8
Per capita income: $17,626
Below poverty line %: 8.2
Per capita income: $21,680
Muscogee
Below poverty line %: 15.7
Per capita income: $18,262
Chattahoochee
Below poverty line %: 10.6
Per capita income: $14,049
Stewart
Below poverty line %: 22.2
Per capita income: $16,071
Quitman
Below poverty line %: 21.9
Per capita income: $14,301
Randolph
Below poverty line %: 27.7
Per capita income: $11,809
Clay
Below poverty line %: 31.3
Per capita income: $16,819
Early
Below poverty line %: 25.7
Per capita income: $14,936
Decatur
Below poverty line %: 22.7
Per capita income: $15,063
Seminole
Below poverty line %: 23.2
Per capita income: $14,635
Marion
Below poverty line %: 22.4
Per capita income: $14,044
Talbot
Below poverty line %: 24.2
Per capita income: $14,539
Terrell
Below poverty line %: 28.6
Per capita income: $13,894
Published: 16 March 2004
© 2004 Steve Bransford and Southern Spaces
© 2004 Steve Bransford and Southern Spaces