Table 4. Income and Poverty for Selected Ancestry Groups Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census Internet Release date: February 18, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Median |Median |Percent |Percent |household|family |persons |families Ancestry |income |income |in poverty|in poverty ------------------------------------------------------------------ All persons $30,056 $35,225 13.1 10.0 Albanian $35,615 $41,036 10.4 7.8 American $22,721 $27,198 15.8 13.4 Armenian $36,860 $43,018 13.1 10.5 Assyrian $33,124 $35,839 14.7 13.2 Australian $36,340 $45,823 8.3 4.6 Austrian $38,278 $49,894 5.3 2.7 Barbadian $33,480 $38,735 8.8 6.5 Basque $37,123 $43,014 7.4 3.6 Belgian $34,598 $40,774 6.2 3.9 Belizean $27,449 $28,441 17.2 15.0 Brazilian $27,309 $29,987 15.6 12.3 British West Indian $29,738 $33,388 15.7 13.2 Bulgarian $31,850 $39,882 10.2 7.7 Cajun $25,131 $28,635 16.4 13.4 Canadian $31,510 $40,407 8.0 5.3 Cape Verdean $26,516 $30,028 18.0 16.2 Croatian $30,991 $37,291 8.9 6.1 Czech $31,800 $38,457 7.3 4.9 Czechoslovakian $33,615 $42,227 6.9 3.8 Danish $33,822 $40,163 6.3 3.9 Dutch $30,929 $36,470 8.4 5.8 Dutch West Indian $24,335 $27,924 18.0 13.9 Egyptian $40,095 $45,700 11.6 9.3 English $34,117 $40,875 6.8 4.5 Estonian $35,818 $48,922 5.5 2.1 Ethiopian $21,553 $26,920 24.6 19.9 Finnish $31,142 $38,067 8.3 5.5 French $30,696 $36,237 9.3 7.2 French Canadian $33,702 $38,996 7.6 5.4 German $32,730 $38,216 7.7 5.5 Greek $37,212 $43,330 7.3 5.2 Guyanese $33,904 $35,761 12.1 10.7 Haitian $25,547 $25,651 22.2 20.7 Hungarian $35,200 $42,778 6.9 4.3 Icelander $35,358 $41,497 8.4 6.5 Iranian $36,813 $41,974 13.3 10.6 Iraqi $33,043 $36,811 17.6 15.6 Irish $31,845 $38,101 8.7 6.5 Israeli $40,242 $47,167 11.7 7.9 Italian $36,060 $42,242 6.9 4.9 Jamaican $30,461 $34,018 13.1 11.1 Latvian $38,586 $51,209 5.0 2.2 Lebanese $35,721 $42,104 10.0 7.1 Lithuanian $35,916 $45,361 5.6 3.2 Luxemburger $35,318 $41,726 4.5 2.7 Maltese $40,552 $44,896 5.9 5.0 Nigerian $22,364 $26,837 22.2 18.5 Norwegian $32,207 $38,430 7.5 5.1 Palestinian $31,300 $35,102 19.5 14.8 Pennsylvania German $23,286 $29,779 12.1 8.1 Polish $34,763 $41,700 6.6 4.3 Portuguese $33,936 $38,370 7.9 6.3 Romanian $37,452 $46,457 9.1 6.1 Russian $45,778 $58,826 6.1 3.6 Scotch-Irish $32,106 $39,816 6.1 3.9 Scottish $36,810 $43,293 5.8 3.5 Serbian $34,036 $40,510 6.6 4.1 Slavic $31,059 $39,206 8.1 5.7 Slovak $32,352 $40,072 6.0 3.8 Slovene $31,554 $39,673 4.9 2.4 Swedish $33,881 $40,459 6.7 4.5 Swiss $35,531 $42,126 6.5 3.8 Syrian $35,956 $42,164 9.4 6.6 Trinidadian and Tobagonian $30,305 $33,206 14.4 12.7 Turkish $37,091 $45,011 10.9 7.4 Ukrainian $34,474 $42,193 6.3 4.0 Welsh $36,515 $42,170 5.6 3.4 Yugoslavian $33,574 $40,583 8.2 5.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------