Family Poverty Rate by Race and Latino Origin in Massachusetts

The 2004 ACS estimates that the poverty rate of Asian American families dropped slightly since 2000 and that of Latino families dropped significantly. The poverty rate for African American families, however, is estimated to have increased by more than 5 percent points. However, large margins of error make these estimates somewhat unreliable.

	2000	2004 estimate	Margin of error +/-
Asian American	12.4%	11.0%	4.2%
White	4.6%	4.8%	0.5%
Latino	28.5%	24.9%	4.1%
Black or African American	18.3%	23.8%	6.3%
TOTAL	6.7%	7.1%	0.6%

Source: 2004 American Community Survey. Margins of error calculated by the Institute for Asian American Studies.