Despite experiencing one of the sharpest upticks in median income last year, San Antonio remains the nation’s third-most impoverished metro area, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this week.
About 13% of San Antonians lived in poverty between 2023 and 2024, ranking the area below only Detroit and Houston when compared to the nation’s other 25 largest metros. Even so, the city’s poverty rate has declined slightly since 2023, according to the Census numbers.
The new data comes despite the San Antonio metro logging a 3.7% increase in median household income during that same time, reaching $78,100. That’s among the nation’s fastest rates for wage growth, according to the Census Bureau…