Syracuse, N.Y. — The child poverty rate in Syracuse fell by more than 7 percentage points in 2024, but the city still had one of the highest rates of child poverty in the nation, according to new census data.

Syracuse’s child poverty rate of 40.9% was the fourth-highest in the nation in 2024 among places with over 100,000 people, according to census data released Thursday.

That translated into more than 10,000 kids in the city living below the poverty line. For a U.S. family of four with two children in 2024, that meant income of $31,812.

Syracuse has long had one of the nation’s highest rates of child poverty . The city routinely ranks at or near the top of the list of places with the worst child poverty in the country.

But its rate in 2024 was one of its lowest in census records da

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