Editing Kiryas Joel, New York (section)

==Poverty and crime==
The median income for a household in the village is $40,218, and the [[per capita income]] for the village is $12,114.<ref>{{Cite web |title=QuickFacts Kiryas Joel village, New York |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/kiryasjoelvillagenewyork/PST045222 |website=United States Census Bureau}}</ref>
 
According to 2020 census figures, the village has a high poverty rate with about 40% of the residents living below the federal poverty line.<ref name="Kiryas Joel, NY Data USA"/> A 2011 ''[[New York Times]]'' report noted that, despite the town's very high statistical poverty rates, "It has no slums or homeless people. No one who lives there is shabbily dressed or has to go hungry. Crime is virtually non-existent."<ref>{{cite news|author=[[Sam Roberts (newspaper journalist)|Sam Roberts]] |title=A Village With the Numbers, Not the Image, of the Poorest Place|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/nyregion/kiryas-joel-a-village-with-the-numbers-not-the-image-of-the-poorest-place.html |quote=The poorest place in the United States is not a dusty Texas border town, a hollow in Appalachia, a remote Indian reservation, or a blighted urban neighborhood. It has no slums or homeless people. No one who lives there is shabbily dressed or has to go hungry. Crime is virtually non-existent. |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=April 21, 2011 |access-date=December 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414214510/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/nyregion/kiryas-joel-a-village-with-the-numbers-not-the-image-of-the-poorest-place.html |archive-date=April 14, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>