This report presents statistics on income in 1959 of families and unrelated individuals with selected characteristics. The statistics in this report are in the form of two major tables--

Table 1, All families and those with incomes under $3,000 in 1959, by age, color and sex of head; and

Table 2, All unrelated individuals and those with incomes under $1,500 in 1959, by age and color, which provide data by States for families and unrelated individuals

--and a series of text tables which summarize State data and facilitate comparisons among States and comparisons of individual States or regions with the United States.

For the country as a whole, the median family income rose substantially from 1949 to 1959. The 1959 median family income of $5,700 was $2,600, or 84 percent, above its 1949 level. Table A indicates that the change in median family income was relatively greater in States having lower median family incomes in 1949. Of the six States with median family incomes below $2,000 in 1949, four had increases of over 100 percent; the other two showed increases of 99 percent. All States with a median family income above $2,000 in 1949 had an increase of less than 100 percent.

When one looks at additional statistics for the 9,7 million families whose 1959 incomes were under $3,000, it is found 2.2 million were white families with an aged male head, l.4 million were white families with a female head, 1.6 million were white families with a male head under 65 who was unemployed part of the year, and 2.0 million were nonwhite families. These four groups together accounted for about three-fourths of the low income families in 1959.

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