Graph courtesy of DCFPI

Around 123,000 D.C. residents—one in five—live in poverty, 19,000 more than did in 2008-2009, according to new Census data parsed by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute.

The data linked the rise in poverty to the high unemployment rates for certain residents and the flat growth of median income since 2005-2006. According to DCFPI, unemployment among D.C. residents with a high school diploma stood at 25 percent at the end of 2011; the citywide rate stands at 9.8 percent. Median household income reached $57,000 in 2010-2011, a statistically insignificant increase from the $54,600 five years prior.

On the plus side, D.C. has one of the lowest rates of residents lacking health insurance—12 percent for those under 65. But less of that insurance is provided by employers, and more of it through Medicaid. In 2010-2011, some 49 percent of kids in D.C. were covered by Medicaid, up from 38 percent a decade earlier. The rate for non-elderly adult grew from 22 percent in 2006-2007 to 25.1 percent at the end of last year.

A recent report found the poverty in the city is hitting kids the hardest, and that the childhood poverty rate in D.C. stands above that of Mexico.