Poverty and Homelessness 2025
Poverty and Homelessness 2025
Just the Facts: Poverty and Homelessness Nationwide and in Cuyahoga County
A special thank you to NEOCH’s intern, Devon Skufca, who worked on updating our fact document. It is always important to check the statistics and conceptualize them and this document does great at focusing on the root of the issue and giving context to the rate of poverty right now in our community.
2025 Official Federal Poverty Line: $15,650 (single-person) $21,150 (two-person household)
28% OF THE POPULATION (84 MILLION PEOPLE) FALL ON OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE POVERTY LINE
Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM): Accounts for income and payroll taxes, tax credits, noncash benefits, and nondiscretionary expenses. Uses geographically adjusted poverty thresholds that are updated by BLS with recent information on food, clothing, shelter, utility, telephone, and internet expenditures. Poverty measure that accounts for current standards of living as well as short-term policy changes in response to current events
Poverty in Cuyahoga County (2022)
16.6% in poverty (201,405 people) 24.1% of children in poverty 39.6% of single women with children in poverty 33.6% live in or near poverty Over 90,000 households spend half their income on housing
