American Community Survey · 2020–2024 five-year estimates

Nearly one in three neighbors lives below 200% of the poverty line

About 60,000 people across Rock Island, Henry, and Mercer counties have household income under twice the federal poverty threshold, the eligibility band most energy, housing, and family-support programs actually use. Choose a county, and switch indicators to see how the picture changes.

Choropleth map of Rock Island, Henry, and Mercer counties, Illinois. Select a county for its figures.
Rock Island County occupies the northwest of the service area along the Mississippi River, Henry County the east, and Mercer County the southwest.
Wide margin of error (over ±3 points). Read with caution. Mississippi River

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All indicators, with 90% margins of error
County Below 200%
of poverty		 Poverty
rate		 Child
poverty		 Seniors
in poverty		 Median household
income

Source. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 five-year estimates, tables C17002 (ratio of income to poverty level), B17001 (poverty status by sex and age), B19013 (median household income), and B01003 (total population). County boundaries from the Census Bureau TIGER/Line files, 2024 vintage. Poverty percentages use the population for whom poverty status is determined, which is smaller than total population because it excludes institutionalized people, people in military group quarters, people in college dormitories, and unrelated individuals under age 15.

Note on reading these figures. Five-year estimates pool 60 months of survey responses, so they describe an average of the period rather than any single year. Margins of error are wide in Mercer County because of its small sample. Because the map shows only three counties, the color classes are fixed at set thresholds rather than derived from the data, so the shading means the same thing every time the indicator changes.