Hello,

I am working on preparing a list that will contain all low income cities in the following states: (1) NY, (2) NJ, (3) PA, (4) CT

I need some help on where I can go to access this? I tried census bureau but I am having a difficult time.

Can someone maybe give me some direction? The purpose is for my bank to be able to originate more loans in the low income areas.

Thank you.

It's not as easy as just getting a list of cities. Take NY state as an example. Almost every larger city in the state is going some LMI tracts. But that doesn't mean the whole city is LMI. Only parts of it are. Also there are going to be tracts not located in a city that are LMI.

You can get detailed about tracts here:
https://www.ffiec.gov/census/

I don't think the person who gave you this task understands what they are asking for :-)

Yes, that's what I was thinking but I thought maybe there was something I wasn't aware of. Thank you!!!

Generally, every major city has LMI and MUI census tracts, as income levels are based on MSA median family incomes.

There are no "low-income cities", only tracts are classified as such. GeoDataVision posts free census tract reference books on its website www.GeoDataVision.com - we are about to post the 2020 tracts for every state. If you are in a hurry, you can retrieve the 2019 books - there were no changes in tract income classification between 2019 and 2020.