7 Poorest Cities in California

3. Fresno City

Total population: 509,924

Number of people living below poverty line: 154,382

Percent of total population living below poverty line: 30.5

Not only that Fresno is one of the poorest Golden State’s cities, but it is also the place where poverty-based segregation is extremely pronounced. Century Foundation study, which examined characteristics of the poorest neighborhoods, ranked Fresno among ten places with the highest percent of the poor living in the most deprived parts of the city. More than half of all poor African Americans live in impoverished neighborhoods; Hispanic concentration of poverty is 43 percent, and non-Hispanic white is 19.6. The city also has the third lowest median household income of $39,880, while median earnings in the black community are $23,304.