TLDR: Darker = more poverty
This state representation colors each town, where the darker the color, the higher the numerical value is represented, showing the total number of people living below the poverty line in each town. The legend gives a rough reference for how dark & bright each shade of red is, where the lightest color represents well under 10,000 people and the darkest color represents over 40,000 people.
Least people below the poverty line:
North Shoreham, with 71 people.
Most people below the poverty line:
Providence, with 46,678 people.
Providence has significantly more people below the poverty line than the rest of Rhode Island. Pawtucket is the closest with just over 14,000.
Noticing total counts of people below the poverty line seems like an incomplete understanding of poverty in Rhode Island town-by-town. Another view into the data is considering poverty-by-population: understanding the percentage of the population in each town that lives below the poverty line. Below are some charts revealing this view into the data.
TLDR: Darker = more poverty, measured by population percentage(%)
This state representation colors each town, where the darker the color, the higher the percentage of the town population lives below the poverty line. The legend gives a rough reference for the meaning of the shades of blue, where the lightest color represents under 5% of the town populaton and the darkest shade represents over 30% of the town population.
Another perspective on poverty in Rhode Island is by comparing the population of at-or-below poverty by race (race, of course, taken from census options). Here is a 'polar area' diagram comparing poverty by race.
Here, the value is displayed by using the length of each wedge, rather than the traditional pie chart wedge-width. I've found this to be an interesting approach for visualizing poverty broken-down by race.
Select a wedge - - - > >
to see more details.