Connecticut households made $53 more in 2012 than they did in 2011, while the number of residents below the poverty line dipped by 5,466, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The year-over-year household income gain represented an uptick of 0.1 percent, while the percentage of the population below the poverty line fell from 10.9 percent to 10.7 percent.
Connecticut had one of the lowest poverty rates in the country, behind New Hampshire (10 percent), Alaska (10.1 percent) and Maryland (10.3 percent.)
But the state’s median household income has fallen 6.5 percent since 2000, and poverty has also increased 3 percent over that time.
Across the country, median household was up $47 — the first time since the Census Bureau’s 2007 American Community Survey that the figure was not negative. The poverty rate was flat over the year, but up to 15.9 percent of the population from 12.2 percent from 2000.
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