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Demographic profiles of counties without newspapers compared to the general population in the United States in 2025

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October 2025

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United States

Survey time period

2025

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News desert counties: demographics in the U.S. 2025

Published by ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Research Department, Jun 15, 2026

According to a study conducted in 2025 using the most recently available data, the average poverty rate in news deserts in the United States (counties without access to or with very limited access to local news) was around **** percentage points higher than the country average, at **** percent. Citizens living in counties without newspapers were also earning a lower median annual income than the general population average, with the figure estimated at * U.S. dollars compared to * dollars for the U.S. as a whole.

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