Do you know what the poorest counties in the United States are? I get a lot of requests about
county videos i always seem to talk about state cities towns and even other countries but never
counties so here we are talking about the poorest counties in the united states in our last video
we talked about the wealthiest counties let's do the other side of the coin today this video
is based on the lowest median household income according to the latest american survey from
the u.s census bureau right now in the summer of 2022 the nation's median household income
is right about 65 000 the median household income in the counties on this list are about half of
that when you have a county where the average annual income is about half the u.s average
you know there's a good portion of that community hunt and squirrel for dinner three nights a week
so in a nutshell the counties on this list are for people that are barely getting by and have
a taste for squirrel i guess get it got it good let's take a look number 10 bell county kentucky
look at that kentucky finally shows up on a list i think i was mentioned recently that we don't
talk about kentucky that much they're never the absolute worst they're never anywhere near the
best on just about anything maybe they'll be at the top of the list if we ever do a video about
states that excel in bourbon and horse racing if you want to look for bell county on a map it is
located in the southeastern part of the bluegrass state on the border with tennessee just north of
knoxville middleboro is the largest city in bell county and it's located about one mile west of
the Cumberland gap and it's the largest city in southeastern kentucky the good news if you want to
buy a house here now they do have some homes that are really nice six seven eight hundred thousand
probably some even higher than that but a majority of the homes that i looked at that are decent
start off around 150 000 and could go as low as 90 000 and this is a decent livable home they do
sell a lot of vacant lots you know get an acre or so and that usually is around 3 500 to 4 000
per acre in this county the median household income in bell county is 30 426 dollars annually
number nine coma county mississippi off to the mississippi delta region we go if you didn't know
they were going to show up in a poverty list you haven't been paying attention the holman
county is in the northwest section of mississippi near the arkansas border and it straddles the
mississippi river and it's also just south of memphis tennessee the biggest city in the county
is clarksdale this type of place you live if you want to save some money and you like fishing
there's plenty of fishing going on around here they also got a lot of poverty going on around
here actually i think that's the one thing they truly excel in the good news if you want to buy a
house here you're not going to be putting out that much money you can get a fixer-upper for about 65
000. three-bedroom two-bath it's in Clarksdale which is a good-sized city and it's 65 000
I see other ones that are like 58 000. if you want to get one you shouldn't get it's like 23
000 and you might as well just mow it down but there is a house there I'd say the majority of
the decent homes here are under 200 000. they go up higher than that but a majority are under 200
000. almost 40 percent of this county lives below the poverty line 39.6 the median household income
is 30 170 a year i probably don't need to say a year but yeah sometimes you do number eight
holmes county mississippi yes mississippi shows up again and i can tell you right now the rest of
this list is mississippi this whole thing could have just i'm totally kidding that's the last
mississippi one there are actually places that are worse than mississippi but holmes is pretty bad
holmes is just north of the state capital of jackson mississippi that's not good but
their largest city is lexington 42.4 percent of the population of holmes county lives below
the poverty line if you want to live in holmes county good news home prices are about 120 000
on down they do have one that comes with like four or five acres that's for four hundred thousand
but most the homes here are under a hundred and twenty thousand dollars holmes county mississippi
has a great place to be from it's the type of place that let's say you leave holmes county you
become famous you're doing the interviews and at some point you're going to say this over and over
and i never looked back the median household income in holmes county mississippi is thirty
thousand one hundred and twenty two dollars number seven corson county south dakota corson county
is on the border with north dakota right about the middle of the state and has the missouri river on
its eastern border the county is encompassed by the standing rock indian reservation which
extends into north dakota a bit too the lakota people reside primarily in the South
Dakota part of the reservation the grand river a tributary of the missouri river runs through
the reservation they don't have a lot of homes for sale but when they did have some last year
they were going for about eighty thousand ninety thousand that's about it normally they don't have
a lot of homes for sale or a lot of homes you can get if it's on indian reservation there's
some hoops you gotta jump through course in county ain't knocking it out of the park when it comes to
wages they are knocking out the park when it comes to poverty 37.1 percent of their population live
below the poverty line the median household income in courson county is 30 060 dollars
number six toliver county georgia tolliver sits between Augusta and Atlanta a little closer to
Augusta though they don't have a lot of people here this is a county with only 1611 residents
they don't have any big cities here or really big towns the largest settlement they have i guess
you could say is a town called crawfordville and they only got about 550 residents this is
definitely a rural community i thought it was a farming community at first i mean they got some
farming but not a bunch it's mostly wooded area i think the only thing they're growing here probably
despair and poverty 25 of the population lives below the poverty line and if you want to get
some property here have a home have a mortgage all that good stuff they only have one place for sale
right now and it's going for 129 000 a little bit older it's cute just a little bit older looking
in the surrounding area that's about the normal price for an older home if you get something new
it might be 250 000 that's about it they do have a really nice looking cabin place that's on sale
just on the outskirts of crawfordville it's going for five hundred thousand and it comes with 20
acres the median household income in tulvar county is 29 321 dollars number five catrin county new
mexico catherine county is a sparsely populated rural desert county that doesn't even have any
cities the largest settlement i guess you could say they have is reserve that's the county seat
and they got less than 400 residents not a lot goes on around here other than last january the
ex-sheriff was investigated for questionable spending on the government card yeah there's
just not much to this place they do have a place called pie town that's kind of cool that's an
unincorporated community in the county which has a population of 186 how'd you like to live
in a place called pai town if you're looking for catherine county on a map don't it's really not
worth the effort but if you decide not to heed my advice you could find it on the border with
arizona about midway up the state it does have the gila national forest in the county or at least
part of it 23.8 percent of the population lives below the poverty line and the median household
income is twenty seven thousand four hundred and twenty three dollars number four clay county
kentucky look at that kentucky shows up twice on a list and we're not through with them yet they got
some serious poverty issues in kentucky in case you don't know you thought mississippi was bad
thought west virginia was bad kentucky's way worse clay county has a population of about 20
000 residents they've lost population almost every single census since the 1930 census they
gained some in 1940 census and again in the 1980 census but since then they usually lose between
5 and 12 clay county was formed in 1807 and named in honor of green clay not a thing a person clay
was a member of the virginia and kentucky state legislatures first cousins once were moved
from henry clay u.s senator from kentucky and secretary of state in the 1800s these days they
got a poverty rate that's 37.9 percent above the national average if you want to buy a place here
you can get some really nice homes six bedrooms four bath on like five acres that's gonna be under
550 000 and that's kind of the theme they got some houses around that area but a majority of
the homes here are under 180 thousand dollars and they're decent livable some of them that look nice
that i'd move into tomorrow are going for like 140 000 that's not bad what is bad is their median
household income is eight 26 and sixty six dollars that ain't good number three mcdowell county west
virginia there's our old friend west virginia i honestly thought they'd be on this list a lot
more than they actually are but things are turning around for them little by little they got a long
way to go but they're getting better mcdowell is in the southwest corner of west virginia on
the border with tennessee just kidding actually virginia how many of you were leaving a comment
come on west virginia doesn't touch tennessee anywhere close but they don't touch mcdowell has a
population of just under 20 000 and their largest city is welch and it's not that big it only has
about 1900 residents as of the 2020 census this is one of those parts of west virginia where you want
to kind of stay on the road don't go venturing off into the haulers the land and the mountains here
are beautiful you just don't want to be getting off the road too much here if you want to buy
a house in mcdowell county uh it's hard to find one that's over 100 000 i'm not even joking most
of the houses here between 50 and like 90 000 if nothing else west virginia is a cheap place
to live and buy real estate mcdowell county has a poverty rate of 31.8 percent and their median
household income is twenty six thousand seventy two dollars number two owsley county kentucky
look at that in our richest county video virginia had the most counties and here's their next door
neighbor kentucky with the most poverty-stricken counties way to go kentucky leading the way here's
the good thing about owsley county most of the homes here are under 175 000 now they do have some
really really nice ones that are over 400 000 on up comes with some acreage and looks like
someone's mowing the lawn they have some pretty interesting names for locations in this county
you got major you got green hall cow creek rice town mistletoe island city sturgeon pebb worth
booneville and vincent ownsley county only has 4 000 residents and their county seat is called
boonville and they have less than 100 people this is definitely a sparsely populated county 30.6
percent of ownsley county live below the poverty line and their median household income is 25 897
that's a year that's what a home a house with people in it more than one
are living on that's the median but that tells me there's people below that too all right before we
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really looking at right now all right on to number one and number one buffalo county south dakota
buffalo county south dakota is just north of chamberlain south dakota on the missouri river
missouri river actually makes up its western border this county has just under 2 000 residents
and its county seat is gan valley which only has a population of 14 people this is the least populous
county seat in the united states the county was created in 1864 and was organized in 1871 as
part of the dakota territory the crow creek indian reservation makes up a majority of buffalo county
if you want to buy a house here that wasn't on the reservation well they don't have any for
sale right now but in recent months they've sold a couple in the area not actually in the county
but on the outskirts and it usually goes for under a hundred thousand if you move to gan valley the
county seat you could actually introduce yourself to everyone in the town in like 20 minutes two
hours if you want to get everyone's life story 32.8 percent of the population of buffalo
county lives below the poverty line and their median household income is 23 841. that's rough
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
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