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Issued November 2023
CPS-676 (11/2023)

Income

Median Household Income by
Region and Residence: 2022

Real median
household income
was $74,580 in
2022, a 2.3 percent
decline from the
2021 estimate of
$76,330.

$74,580

ALL HOUSEHOLDS

People Without Health Insurance
for the Entire Year by Selected
Characteristics: 2022
(In percent)

Age
$80,360

Northeast

Median household incomes were highest
in the West ($82,890) and the Northeast
($80,360), followed by the Midwest
($73,070) and the South ($68,230).

14.0

19 to 25 years

12.5

26 to 34 years

$68,230

South

5.4

Under 19 years

$73,070

Midwest

11.2

35 to 44 years
$82,890

West

In 2022, households inside metropolitan
areas but outside principal cities had
the highest median income ($83,230),
followed by households inside principal
cities ($69,940). Households outside
metropolitan areas had the lowest
median income ($55,960).

7.9

Total

Region

65 years and older
$77,500

Inside MSA

White, non-Hispanic

Median Earnings of Workers: 2022
All Workers
Men
Women
Full-Time,
Year-Round
Workers
Men
Women

$47,960
$52,770
$41,320
$60,070
$62,350
$52,360

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey,
2023 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.

Outside MSA

$55,960

Asian

Under 18 years
Social Security -28.9

8.3

Medical
expenses

5.9
17.2

Hispanic

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey,
2023 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.

Disability Status

Health Insurance Coverage
More people were insured in 2022 than
2021. In 2022, 92.1 percent of people
(304.0 million), had health insurance at
some point during the year, representing
an increase in the insured rate and number
of insured from 2021 (91.7 percent or 300.9
million).

10.5

Total, 15 to 64 years old
With disability
Without disability

65 years
and older

18 to 64 years

4.9

Black

The real median earnings of all workers
(including part-time and full-time
workers) decreased 2.2 percent between
2021 and 2022. Median earnings of
those who worked full-time, year-round
decreased 1.3 percent.

The figure below details the effect that
various additions and subtractions had on
the number of people who would have been
considered poor in 2022, holding all else the
same and assuming no behavioral changes.

(In millions)

7.9

White1

$83,230

Outside principal cities

The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)
rate in 2022 was 12.4 percent, an increase of
4.6 percentage points from 2021. This is the
first increase in the overall SPM poverty rate
since 2010.

Change in the Number of People in
Poverty After Including Each
Element: 2022

1.1

Race and Hispanic Origin1

$69,940

Inside principal cities

8.6

45 to 64 years

Metropolitan
Statistical Area (MSA)

Poverty Rate, Number of People
in Poverty

7.3

Refundable
tax credits
SNAP

7.1
-6.4
-3.7

Work expenses
10.8

Federal surveys now give respondents the option of reporting
more than one race. Therefore, two basic ways of defining a race
group are possible. A group, such as Asian, may be defined as
those who reported Asian and no other race (the race-alone or
single-race concept) or as those who reported Asian, regardless
of whether they also reported another race (the
race-alone-or-in-combination concept). This table shows data
using the first approach (race alone). The use of the single-race
population does not imply that it is the preferred method of
presenting or analyzing data. The Census Bureau uses a variety of
approaches. Data for American Indians and Alaska Natives, Native
Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, and those reporting two or
more races are not shown separately.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey,
2023 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.

3.6

Housing
subsidies

-2.6

SSI

-2.5

1

Federal
income tax
Unemployment
insurance
8.5

1.1
-0.4
7.0

Notes: SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
SSI is Supplemental Security Income. More information on
confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and
definitions is available at .
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2023
Annual Social and Economic Supplement.