WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of the Census issued the following press release:
SEPT. 15, 2026 - The U.S. Census Bureau today announced that real median household income was $87,460 in 2025, the highest on record dating back to 1967.
The official poverty rate fell 0.5 percentage points to 10.2% in 2025. The following 2025 findings were not statistically different from 2024: the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) rate in 2025 was 13.1% and in 2025, 26.7 million people (7.9%) were uninsured for the entire year, according to the 2026 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).
These findings come from three Census Bureau reports, "Income in the United States: 2025," "Poverty...