Website ranks Abbeville as poorest city in Louisiana

Abbeville has been known for positive things over the years, but one thing Abbeville has never been known for is being a poor city, especially the poorest in Louisiana.
According the national website 24/7 WallStreet.com, it ranked towns throughout the United States and then ranked the poorest town in each state.
Abbeville was ranked the poorest in Louisiana and the 17th poorest nationally.
According to the website, Abbeville’s average household income is $29,202 while the state average is $44,874.
The website states that Abbeville’s poverty rate is 23 percent.
Louisiana was ranked as the eighth poorest state.
The website used information from 2009 to 2013 to rank each city.
On the website it explains why it voted Abbeville as the poorest in the state:
“Of all the poorest towns in each state, Abbeville had the second lowest percentage of adults with a high school diploma at 68%. Also, only 10.3% of the town’s adult residents had a bachelor’s degree. With a median household income of $29,202, Abbeville is the poorest town in the eighth poorest state in the country.”
Abbeville Mayor Mark Piazza was unaware of the website.
“I’m really not surprised. Abbeville is definitely a poor town and has always been,” said Piazza. "Poverty level is in the top 10 to 15 percent of the state. For many years I have commented on the drastic difference between classes here. It is really a shame that the south is still so impoverished, but that goes all the way back to the Civil War.”
The website also explained how it got its ranking of each city.
“To identify the poorest town in each state, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed median household incomes for every town with populations of 25,000 or less in each state from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS).
“Due to relatively small sample sizes for town-level data, all social and economic figures are based on five-year estimates for the period 2009-2013. We considered the percentage of residents who had at least a bachelor’s degree, the towns’ poverty rates, and workforce composition — all from the ACS. The percentage of housing units that were owned by their occupants — referred to as the homeownership rate — also came from the ACS.”
The poorest ranked city in the nation according to the website is Tuskegge, Alabama with a town population of 9,600.