| Percent Rural, For All Children and Those Who Will Lose Part or All of the Child Tax Credit if Threshold Increases from $3,000 to $12,850 in 2011 | ||
| Percent Living in a Non Metropolitan Area1 | ||
| All Children | Children Facing Loss/Reduction of CTC | |
| United States | 15% | 18% |
| Alabama | 28% | 32% |
| Alaska | 32% | 46% |
| Arizona | 7% | 8% |
| Arkansas | 38% | 43% |
| California | 2% | 2% |
| Colorado | 13% | 12% |
| Connecticut | 8% | 8% |
| Delaware | 19% | 27% |
| District of Columbia | 0% | 0% |
| Florida | 5% | 7% |
| Georgia | 17% | 21% |
| Hawaii | 30% | 34% |
| Idaho | 34% | - |
| Illinois | 11% | 13% |
| Indiana | 21% | 23% |
| Iowa | 42% | 42% |
| Kansas | 34% | 38% |
| Kentucky | 40% | 45% |
| Louisiana | 26% | 29% |
| Maine | 40% | 42% |
| Maryland | 5% | - |
| Massachusetts | 0% | - |
| Michigan | 17% | 18% |
| Minnesota | 25% | 34% |
| Mississippi | 55% | 61% |
| Missouri | 25% | 35% |
| Montana | 65% | 73% |
| Nebraska | 39% | 39% |
| Nevada | 9% | 8% |
| New Hampshire | 34% | 50% |
| New Jersey | 0% | 0% |
| New Mexico | 34% | 41% |
| New York | 7% | 8% |
| North Carolina | 28% | 33% |
| North Dakota | 51% | 63% |
| Ohio | 19% | 21% |
| Oklahoma | 34% | 38% |
| Oregon | 21% | 24% |
| Pennsylvania | 15% | 19% |
| Rhode Island | 0% | 0% |
| South Carolina | 23% | 26% |
| South Dakota | 52% | 52% |
| Tennessee | 25% | 29% |
| Texas | 11% | 12% |
| Utah | 10% | - |
| Vermont | 64% | 68% |
| Virginia | 12% | 17% |
| Washington | 11% | 16% |
| West Virginia | 44% | 48% |
| Wisconsin | 25% | 26% |
| Wyoming | 69% | 66% |
| Source: Over 3 Million Low-Income Children in Rural Areas Face Cut In Child Tax Credit if Recovery Act Improvement Expires, Arloc Sherman and Marybeth Mattingly, Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, June 2010 |
1. Urban and rural areas are based on geographic identifiers by the Census Bureau. Rural areas are areas that are not in urban or suburban parts of metropolitan areas.