Atlanta's Peer Metros in Housing Stability: Poverty Rates

The pattern that ties Atlanta with its peer metros with respect to poverty rates is a familiar one at this point. To quickly recap, the pattern has been two peer metros being relatively close to the Atlanta figure and the other three metros being relatively far. In this particular case, the peer metro with the poverty rate closest to Atlanta’s is within 0.3 percentage points of the Atlanta value. The second-closest poverty rate is within 0.8 percentage points of the Atlanta value. The former metro is Atlanta’s third-closest peer, while the latter is actually the closest peer on the final list of peer metros (see graph below).

When it comes to the three remaining metros, the one with the poverty rate closest to Atlanta’s is nearly 3 percentage points away. The other two metros have poverty rates that are more than 4 percentage points away from Atlanta’s value. In comparison to Louisville and its peers’ range of poverty rate values (1.8 percentage points), the 4.6-percentage-point range for Atlanta and its peers is substantially wider. The next housing stability metric that we’ll cover will tell the full story of why there is a consistent difference in how tightly Louisville and its peers are related across housing stability and why the Atlanta-centered relationships are comparatively looser.

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