A Colorado County’s Poverty Rate Nearly Double State Average
“More Montezuma County children are affected by poverty on average, and more are born into high-risk situations than the state as a whole, according to a new report from the Colorado Children’s Campaign. Every year, the group releases the ‘Kids Count in Colorado’ report, which tracks child wellbeing at the state and county levels. This year’s edition is mostly based on data from 2015. The child poverty rate in Montezuma County, at 28.7 percent, is nearly double the state’s average, according to the report. The county’s teen birth rate in 2015 was 43 per 1,000 females age 15-19. That was more than double the state rate of 19.”