Social problems in the city are concentrated in the north end, where the poverty rate is 48.7 percent — a rate that is more than 300 percent higher than the city’s poverty rate as a whole, which is 15.1 percent.
Among children in the public schools, 64 percent of them qualify for free or reduced price lunches because of the families’ low incomes, and 17 percent of them have a parent or some other relative who is incarcerated.