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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

Harris
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