Single motherhood is a difficult reality for many Wisconsin homes: In 2022, 20.9% of households were headed by single parents, most frequently mothers. Such households are not scattered across income levels in the same way that households on the whole in Wisconsin are. Rather, single motherhood is associated with increased odds of having a low income.
When Census tracts in Wisconsin are categorized by their median household’s income, those tracts in low-income tiers see a greater percentage of their households headed by single mothers than those in high-income tiers.
Census tracts, according to the Census Bureau, are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county. They generally have a population size between 1,200 and 8,000 inhabitants, with an optimum size of 4,000 people.
Census data show that, of Census tracts in the lowest 5% by median household income, 57.4% of their households are headed by an unmarried woman with children. Among tracts in the highest 5% by household income, only 6.8% of households are headed by an unmarried woman with children. In the average Wisconsin Census tract, 18.8% of households are headed by a single mother.
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