Poverty Area Measures

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Implementation details

Class names

Model name	Parameters class	Data class
PovertyAreaMeasures	PovertyAreaMeasuresQueryParams	PovertyAreaMeasuresData

Import Statement

from openbb_core.provider.standard_models. import (
PovertyAreaMeasuresData,
PovertyAreaMeasuresQueryParams,
)

Parameters

• standard
• usda

edition: str | None
Default: 2025

Description

Published edition to retrieve. Each edition is a separate release of the poverty-area classification, differing in census-tract geography, metro/Beale/RUCA vintage, and the most recent ACS measurement periods carried. Valid editions are:
2025, 2023, 2022

level: str | None
Default: county
Geographic level of the lookup. 'county' returns one row per county FIPS reading the county classification flags; 'tract' returns one row per census tract reading the tract flags. Valid levels are: county, tract.

state: str | None
Two-letter state postal abbreviation to scope the rows to a single state. If None, returns every area in the edition. At tract level the state filter is the primary usability lever.

Data

• standard
• usda

fips: str
Area FIPS code of the row, with leading zeros preserved: the five-digit county FIPS at the county level, or the eleven-digit census-tract FIPS at the tract level.

state: str | None
Two-letter state postal abbreviation.

county_name: str | None
County name with its state, as published.

metro_nonmetro: int | None
Metro-nonmetro status of the county: 1 metropolitan, 0 nonmetropolitan, under the edition's metro definition vintage.

rucc_code: int | None
Rural-Urban Continuum (Beale) code of the county, 1 to 9, for the edition's Beale vintage.

region: int | None
Census region code: 1 Northeast, 2 Midwest, 3 South, 4 West.

subregion: int | None
ERS subregion code, 1 to 9.

tract_fips: str | None
Eleven-digit census-tract FIPS code; populated at the tract level only.

tract: str | None
Census-tract number as published; populated at the tract level only.

tract_name: str | None
Census-tract name; populated at the tract level only.

ruca_code: int | None
Rural-Urban Commuting Area code of the tract for the edition's RUCA vintage; populated at the tract level only.

bna: int | None
Block-numbering-area flag: 1 if the tract is a block-numbering area; populated at the tract level only.

high_poverty_1960: int | None
High-poverty flag for 1960: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

high_poverty_1970: int | None
High-poverty flag for 1970: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

high_poverty_1980: int | None
High-poverty flag for 1980: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

high_poverty_1990: int | None
High-poverty flag for 1990: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

high_poverty_2000: int | None
High-poverty flag for 2000: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

high_poverty_2007_11: int | None
High-poverty flag for the 2007-11 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

high_poverty_2015_19: int | None
High-poverty flag for the 2015-19 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available. Present in the 2022 and 2023 editions.

high_poverty_2017_21: int | None
High-poverty flag for the 2017-21 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available. Present in the 2023 and 2025 editions.

high_poverty_2018_22: int | None
High-poverty flag for the 2018-22 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available. Present in the 2025 edition.

high_poverty_2019_23: int | None
High-poverty flag for the 2019-23 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available. Present in the 2025 edition.

extreme_poverty_1960: int | None
Extreme-poverty flag for 1960: 1 if the poverty rate was 40 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

extreme_poverty_1970: int | None
Extreme-poverty flag for 1970: 1 if the poverty rate was 40 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

extreme_poverty_1980: int | None
Extreme-poverty flag for 1980: 1 if the poverty rate was 40 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

extreme_poverty_1990: int | None
Extreme-poverty flag for 1990: 1 if the poverty rate was 40 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

extreme_poverty_2000: int | None
Extreme-poverty flag for 2000: 1 if the poverty rate was 40 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

extreme_poverty_2007_11: int | None
Extreme-poverty flag for the 2007-11 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 40 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available.

extreme_poverty_2015_19: int | None
Extreme-poverty flag for the 2015-19 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 40 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available. Present in the 2022 and 2023 editions.

extreme_poverty_2017_21: int | None
Extreme-poverty flag for the 2017-21 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 40 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available. Present in the 2023 and 2025 editions.

extreme_poverty_2018_22: int | None
Extreme-poverty flag for the 2018-22 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 40 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available. Present in the 2025 edition.

extreme_poverty_2019_23: int | None
Extreme-poverty flag for the 2019-23 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 40 percent or higher, 0 if below, -1 if not available. Present in the 2025 edition.

persistent_poverty_1990: int | None
Persistent-poverty flag anchored at 1990: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher across the four consecutive periods spanning roughly thirty years, 0 otherwise, -1 if not available.

persistent_poverty_2000: int | None
Persistent-poverty flag anchored at 2000: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher across the four consecutive periods spanning roughly thirty years, 0 otherwise, -1 if not available.

persistent_poverty_2007_11: int | None
Persistent-poverty flag anchored at the 2007-11 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher across the four consecutive periods spanning roughly thirty years, 0 otherwise, -1 if not available.

persistent_poverty_2015_19: int | None
Persistent-poverty flag anchored at the 2015-19 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher across the four consecutive periods spanning roughly thirty years, 0 otherwise, -1 if not available. Present in the 2022 and 2023 editions.

persistent_poverty_2017_21: int | None
Persistent-poverty flag anchored at the 2017-21 ACS period: 1 if the poverty rate was 20 percent or higher across the four consecutive periods spanning roughly thirty years, 0 otherwise, -1 if not available. Present in the 2023 and 2025 editions.

enduring_poverty_2007_11: int | None
Enduring-poverty classification anchored at the 2007-11 ACS period: 0 not enduring, 1/2/3 enduring by the earliest qualifying decade (poverty 20 percent or higher across five or more consecutive periods over forty or more years), -1 if not available.

enduring_poverty_2015_19: int | None
Enduring-poverty classification anchored at the 2015-19 ACS period: 0 not enduring, 1/2/3 enduring by the earliest qualifying decade, -1 if not available. Present in the 2022 and 2023 editions.

enduring_poverty_2017_21: int | None
Enduring-poverty classification anchored at the 2017-21 ACS period: 0 not enduring, 1/2/3 enduring by the earliest qualifying decade, -1 if not available. Present in the 2023 and 2025 editions.