3. Rhode Island
- Percentage of black residents: 6.4%
- Black homeownership rate: 29.4% (10th lowest)
- Black incarceration rate: 1,884 per 100,000 people (11th lowest)
- Black unemployment rate: 16.0% (6th highest)
- Unemployment rate, all people: 9.2% (2nd highest)
Throughout the nation, black households earned 62.3% of the white median household income, but black homes in Rhode Island earned just 52.5% of white households in the state. Last year, there were 234 more deaths per 100,000 black people in Rhode Island compared to the white population; this is nearly the largest gap nationwide. Over 23% of black residents lived in poverty last year, while less than 11% of white residents lived in poverty. Sixty-seven percent of white households in the state were homeowners, compared to only 29.4% of black households. The 38 percentage points was wider than the nationwide gap of nearly 30 percentage points.