The Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale metro area’s share of extreme poverty – neighborhoods where at least 40 percent of residents live below the poverty level – is the highest in Arizona, according to a new analysis from the website 24/7 Wall St.

Among the metro area’s poor population, 17.5 percent live in neighborhoods where four out of 10 residents live in poverty, the analysis found. The overall poverty rate in the metro area area is 15.7 percent.

Extreme poverty affects 64 out of 976 neighborhoods in Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, 24/7 Wall St. found. And the unemployment rate in these regions is 10.1 percent.

Only six states in the nation – Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming – have no metro areas with neighborhoods affected by extreme poverty, according to the study, which incorporates data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Residents of the high-poverty neighborhoods are 50 percent less likely to be homeowners or have a college education compared to other neighborhoods, 24/7 Wall St. reported. And residents are twice as likely to be jobless than those who live in more affluent areas, the study said.

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Cities With the Most Concentrated Poverty, by State

State	Metro Area	Concentrated Poverty Rate (as % of Poor Population)	Overall Poverty Rate	Neighborhoods With Concentrated Poverty	Jobless Rate in Poor Neighborhoods
Alabama	Mobile	20.6%	19.3%	18 out of 113	14.4%
Arizona	Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale	17.5%	15.7%	64 out of 976	10.1%
Arkansas	Hot Springs	13.7%	19.1%	2 out of 20	13.4%
California	Visalia-Porterville	31.1%	27.1%	15 out of 78	14.9%
Colorado	Pueblo	14.8%	19.8%	4 out of 53	12.2%
Connecticut	New Haven-Milford	14.4%	12.1%	11 out of 186	17.2%
Florida	Gainesville	21.6%	23.1%	8 out of 53	6.1%
Georgia	Albany	43.6%	25.7%	10 out of 43	25%
Hawaii	Urban Honolulu	2.1%	9.1%	3 out of 228	12.6%
Idaho	Pocatello	8.9%	17.6%	1 out of 21	5.3%
Illinois	Decatur	32.1%	16.6%	6 out of 34	19.8%
Indiana	Fort Wayne	23.5%	14.1%	11 out of 108	13.1%
Iowa	Dubuque	10%	11.9%	1 out of 26	4%
Kansas	Wichita	9.7%	13.9%	7 out of 152	15.9%
Kentucky	Bowling Green	23.8%	18.7%	5 out of 37	6.7%
Louisiana	Monroe	35.4%	24.2%	11 out of 44	15.5%
Maine	Bangor	19%	15.9%	2 out of 45	11.6%
Maryland	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson	8.8%	10.5%	26 out of 668	13.3%
Massachusetts	Springfield	26.1%	16.4%	15 out of 133	18%
Michigan	Flint	38.1%	20.0%	26 out of 129	23.2%
Minnesota	St. Cloud	20.1%	13.3%	1 out of 37	7.2%
Mississippi	Jackson	26.2%	18.5%	21 out of 127	16.7%
Missouri	Cape Girardeau	30.4%	19.1%	5 out of 22	12.2%
Montana	Great Falls	11.2%	13.1%	1 out of 22	5%
Nebraska	Lincoln	15.8%	12%	6 out of 73	7.4%
Nevada	Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise	6.5%	14.6%	13 out of 487	15.7%
New Jersey	Atlantic City-Hammonton	23.9%	15.3%	9 out of 68	17.4%
New Mexico	Las Cruces	26.3%	27.9%	6 out of 40	13.4%
New York	Elmira	30%	15.8%	4 out of 22	8.3%
North Carolina	Greenville	17.9%	24.3%	3 out of 29	13.2%
Ohio	Youngstown-Warren-Boardman	27.7%	16.7%	23 out of 155	18.5%
Oklahoma	Lawton	19.2%	16.6%	4 out of 33	12.5%
Oregon	Medford	7.5%	16.7%	2 out of 41	14.6%
Pennsylvania	Reading	28.1%	13.6%	9 out of 89	22.7%
Rhode Island	Providence-Warwick	4.9%	13%	9 out of 359	11%
South Carolina	Charleston-North Charleston	11.1%	13.9%	8 out of 151	9.6%
Tennessee	Memphis	28.4%	18.9%	52 out of 309	16.3%
Texas	Laredo	54.2%	31.5%	27 out of 60	7.2%
Utah	Ogden-Clearfield	6.5%	8.7%	3 out of 116	14.9%
Vermont	Burlington-South Burlington	10.9%	10.4%	1 out of 45	8.1%
Virginia	Richmond	10.1%	12.4%	11 out of 290	14.5%
Washington	Longview	23.8%	16.9%	4 out of 24	12.9%
West Virginia	Huntington-Ashland	14.2%	18.8%	8 out of 92	12.3%
Wisconsin	Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis	23.5%	14.5%	49 out of 422	15.1%

Source: 24/7 Wall St.