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Poplar Bluff, Missouri (view source)
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According to the 2017 American Community Survey, Poplar Bluff had a median household income of $32,819, and a median family income of $42,993. The unemployment rate was 8.6%. The per capita income was $19,901. About 25.5% of the population lived below the poverty line, including 35.5% of people under the age of 18 and 16.8% of people 65 years old or older.<ref>https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF</ref>
According to the 2017 American Community Survey, Poplar Bluff had a median household income of $32,819, and a median family income of $42,993. The unemployment rate was 8.6%. The per capita income was $19,901. About 25.5% of the population lived below the poverty line, including 35.5% of people under the age of 18 and 16.8% of people 65 years old or older.<ref>https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF</ref>
==Government==
Poplar Bluff was incorporated as a village on February 9, 1870, and as a city on August 2, 1892. Its first mayor was Joseph T. Davidson, a Civil War veteran from [[Illinois]]. Since 1970 the city has had a council-manager form of government, in which most administrative authority lies with an appointed city manager and the elected members of the city council, with the mayor having relatively little power. The current mayor is Robert L. Smith (who also doubles as 5th Ward councilman), who upon his appointment in April 2019 became the city's first African-American mayor. There are six other council members, one from each of the other four wards and the other two elected at-large. The city manager, who appoints most of the city department heads, is Mark Massingham, appointed in 2015.<ref>https://www.poplarbluff-mo.gov/226/City-Manager</ref>
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