Mapped: Poverty in Minnesota

Roughly one in 10 residents of Hennepin and Ramsey counties lived below the poverty level in 2020, per new census data.

• The five other counties in the Twin Cities' seven-county metro have poverty rates closer to 5%.

Zoom out: The Hennepin and Ramsey rates — 10.2% and 13.4% respectively — are on par with the national average of 12.8%.

• As our interactive U.S. map shows, poverty during the pandemic was most concentrated in Appalachia, the South, Southwest and South Dakota.

Zoom in: Mahnomen County had the state's highest share of residents in poverty (21%) and Carver County had the lowest (3.4%).

• The statewide average is 9.8%.