U.S. Poverty Level 2024. For a single person in the continental united states, the 2024 federal poverty level is $15,060. Distribution of total population and poverty by race and hispanic origin using the official poverty measure:

Census bureau’s 2022 current population report, 37.9 million. Official poverty rate as measured by the american community survey (acs), was 12.6% in 2022 but the rate was significantly different for the nation’s oldest and.