Report says Iron County has second highest poverty rate in Utah

A report from the data analysis company Stacker is showing that Iron County has the second-highest poverty rate in Utah.

By looking at U.S. Census Bureau's five-year population estimates from the 2014 to 2018 American Community Survey, Stacker found that Iron County has a nearly 20-percent poverty rate, which is about 91-percent above the state poverty rate.

They looked at poverty rates for Utah among different races and ethnicities and found that about 29-percent of Native Americans and Alaskans live below the poverty line, while nearly 25-percent of Black Americans live below it.

Around 19-percent of Hispanic and Latin Americans live below it, 14-percent of Asian Americans live below it and just eight-percent of White Americans live below the state poverty line.