These are the region’s highest poverty ZIP codes
Though the Bay Area has some of the nation’s wealthiest communities, it’s also home to dozens of high-poverty neighborhoods that have been hit hard by rising housing costs.
With two exceptions, the region’s 10 poorest neighborhoods all are in the East Bay. On average, nearly 52 percent of residents in these neighborhoods earned less than 200 percent of the poverty threshold, the measure we chose as the basis for our analysis to account for the region’s high cost of living. For a family of four, that was $50,188 in 2017, the most recent data available by ZIP code.
