2006 American Community Survey

KIDS COUNT Data Center

The KIDS COUNT Data Center has been updated to include more information on poverty, employment and income, and education levels of U.S. children and families. The following are among the indicators that have been updated with 2006 data from the American Community Survey for states and the 50 largest cities:

Children living in families with incomes below 250% of poverty
Children in low-income working families
Children enrolled in preschool or kindergarten
Children in households where household head is a high school dropout

The Data Center contains more than 100 measures of child well-being, including the most recent data available on education, employment and income, poverty, health, and youth risk factors for the United States as a whole, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as well as the 50 largest cities in the United States. Visit the Data Center to create your own maps, charts, and graphs by topic or geographic area.

4.7 million children living with cohabiting partners

Children are less likely to live in married-couple households today than 30 years ago, but those children who are not living in married-couple households are not necessarily living with one parent only. In 2006, 4.7 million children lived with cohabiting domestic partners. This represents 6% of all children in the U.S. The rate varies by state from a high of 11% in Maine to a low of 4% in Alabama and Utah. This is among the newest data from the American Community Survey now available online in the KIDS COUNT Data Center.

View a map of all states showing the percent of children living with cohabiting domestic partners
See how the rate varies across the 50 largest U.S. cities.