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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cross Cult Gerontol. 2013 Sep;28(3):239–250. doi: 10.1007/s10823-013-9201-x

Table 1.

Median Household Income, U.S. 2011

All Ages Household Head Age 65+
2 person households 4 person households 2 person households
All races, median income $55,000 $75,600 $45,833
nonLatino white $60,151 $89,202 $47,815
nonLatino black $38,000 $54,800 $37,000
nonLatino Asian $60,600 $85,900 $41,993
Latino $35,410 $45,000 $28,757
Federal Poverty Guideline (FPL), 2011 $14,710 $22,350 $14,710
FPL as percent of median income, all races 26.7% 29.6% 32.1%

Source: 2012 Current Population Survey, CPS Table Creator at http://www.census.gov/cps/data/cpstablecreator.html; poverty guidelines from http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/11poverty.shtml