These North Carolina Cities Are Some Of The 'Neediest' In The U.S.

Over the past two years, economic instability has affected millions of individuals across America with 11.4% of the country living in poverty in 2020. Depending on where you live, economic uncertainty can be even higher in some communities than in others.

Measuring the amount of economic disadvantage, such as child poverty and food insecurity, WalletHub compared more 180 cities to determine which are the "neediest" in the country, including several in North Carolina.

These are the North Carolina cities considered to be some of the neediest in the country:

• No. 66: Fayetteville
• No. 81: Greensboro
• No. 91: Winston-Salem
• No. 137: Charlotte
• No. 143: Durham
• No. 163: Raleigh

While the majority of North Carolina cities rank in the bottom half of the list, Fayetteville came in as the neediest in the entire state. It even ranked as the city with the fourth highest food insecurity rate in the country.

Here are the Top 10 neediest cities in America, according to the list:

1. Detroit, Michigan
2. Brownsville, Texas
3. Cleveland, Ohio
4. Fresno, California
5. Gulfport, Mississippi
6. Los Angeles, California
7. Newark, New Jersey
8. Baltimore, Maryland
9. New Orleans, Louisiana
10. St. Louis, Missouri

To determine the list, WalletHub compared 182 cities using two factors, economic well-being and health & safety. These factors were then evaluated across 28 relevant metrics, including child poverty rate, unemployment rate, homelessness rate, median credit score, high school dropout rate, food insecurity rate, share of depressed adults, crime rate and many more.

Check out the full report here.