House Energy and Commerce Committee

Socioeconomic Data for the 109th Congress

Race, ethnicity and income data for congressional districts of members of the 109th Congress House Energy and Commerce Committee are shown below. Click on the word Sort in a column to order the table based on that column. Note that there have been substantial population changes since the 2000 Census was taken in 1999, though percentages and relative income levels are likely to reflect the current situation. The Census Bureau has done updated population estimates for counties, but not for congressional districts.

Data Set Sorted By rank_by_party in Ascending Order

Rank by Party Sort	Representative	Party	State Sort	District	Minority Sort	Afr Am Sort	Asian Sort	Am Indian Sort	Hispanic Sort	Median Hsehold Income Sort	% Indivs in Poverty Sort
1	Joe Barton	R	TX	6	34.0%	12.6%	3.3%	0.4%	15.9%	$45,857	10.4%
2	Ralph M. Hall	R	TX	4	20.7%	10.2%	0.6%	0.7%	7.7%	$38,276	12.8%
3	Michael Bilirakis	R	FL	9	14.8%	3.7%	1.8%	0.3%	7.9%	$40,742	8.6%
4	Fred Upton	R	MI	6	15.7%	8.9%	1.1%	0.5%	3.6%	$40,943	11.4%
5	Cliff Stearns	R	FL	6	21.1%	12.0%	2.3%	0.4%	5.2%	$36,846	13.4%
6	Paul E. Gillmor	R	OH	5	6.3%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	3.8%	$41,701	7.6%
7	Nathan Deal	R	GA	10	14.6%	3.4%	0.7%	0.3%	9.4%	$42,037	10.3%
8	Ed Whitfield	R	KY	1	10.3%	7.3%	0.4%	0.2%	1.5%	$30,360	16.5%
9	Charlie Norwood	R	GA	9	18.8%	13.7%	1.2%	0.3%	2.6%	$39,987	11.2%
10	Barbara Cubin	R	WY	A-L	11.1%	0.8%	0.6%	2.3%	6.4%	$37,892	11.4%
11	John Shimkus	R	IL	19	6.0%	3.5%	0.5%	0.2%	1.1%	$38,955	9.1%
12	Heather Wilson	R	NM	1	51.5%	2.6%	1.8%	3.5%	42.6%	$38,413	14.0%
13	John B. Shadegg	R	AZ	3	21.5%	2.4%	2.1%	1.3%	14.1%	$48,108	8.7%
14	Charles "Chip" Pickering	R	MS	3	36.3%	33.3%	0.6%	0.9%	1.2%	$31,907	19.2%
15	Vito Fossella	R	NY	13	29.1%	6.9%	9.2%	0.2%	11.0%	$50,092	11.9%
16	Roy Blunt	R	MO	7	7.1%	1.3%	0.7%	1.0%	2.6%	$32,929	13.0%
17	Steve Buyer	R	IN	4	6.4%	1.3%	1.5%	0.2%	2.6%	$45,947	8.0%
18	George Radanovich	R	CA	19	40.1%	3.6%	4.5%	1.5%	28.2%	$41,225	14.8%
19	Charles F. Bass	R	NH	2	4.9%	0.7%	1.4%	0.3%	1.7%	$48,762	6.4%
20	Joseph R. Pitts	R	PA	16	15.4%	3.9%	1.3%	0.1%	8.9%	$45,934	9.4%
21	Mary Bono	R	CA	45	49.9%	6.6%	3.0%	1.0%	38.0%	$40,468	15.0%
22	Greg Walden	R	OR	2	13.9%	0.4%	0.8%	2.1%	8.8%	$35,600	13.0%
23	Lee Terry	R	NE	2	20.4%	10.3%	1.8%	0.6%	6.3%	$45,235	8.8%
24	Mike Ferguson	R	NJ	7	21.0%	4.6%	8.2%	0.1%	6.9%	$74,823	3.4%
25	Mike Rogers	R	MI	8	12.3%	4.9%	1.9%	0.5%	3.5%	$52,510	8.4%
26	C.L. "Butch" Otter	R	ID	1	11.0%	0.3%	0.9%	1.4%	6.8%	$38,364	11.0%
27	Sue Myrick	R	NC	9	17.1%	10.5%	2.1%	0.3%	3.5%	$55,059	6.2%
28	John Sullivan	R	OK	1	26.2%	9.4%	1.4%	5.9%	5.3%	$38,610	11.3%
29	Tim Murphy	R	PA	18	4.6%	2.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.6%	$44,938	6.3%
30	Michael Burgess	R	TX	26	33.9%	15.3%	2.1%	0.5%	14.3%	$48,714	11.0%
31	Marsha Blackburn	R	TN	7	16.5%	11.5%	1.5%	0.3%	2.2%	$50,090	8.0%
32	John D. Dingell	D	MI	15	20.8%	11.8%	3.8%	0.4%	2.8%	$48,963	10.3%
33	Henry A. Waxman	D	CA	30	23.6%	2.7%	8.9%	0.3%	8.3%	$60,713	9.0%
34	Edward J. Markey	D	MA	7	16.5%	3.5%	5.7%	0.2%	4.8%	$56,110	6.7%
35	Rick Boucher	D	VA	9	6.7%	3.9%	0.8%	0.2%	1.1%	$29,783	16.2%
36	Edolphus Towns	D	NY	10	83.8%	63.0%	2.7%	0.4%	17.2%	$30,212	29.0%
37	Frank Pallone Jr.	D	NJ	6	38.3%	16.8%	8.4%	0.2%	11.7%	$55,681	9.1%
38	Sherrod Brown	D	OH	13	18.5%	12.3%	1.2%	0.2%	3.5%	$44,524	9.4%
39	Bart Gordon	D	TN	6	11.0%	6.4%	0.9%	0.3%	2.6%	$39,721	11.1%
40	Bobby L. Rush	D	IL	1	72.7%	65.5%	1.4%	0.2%	4.8%	$37,222	19.7%
41	Anna G. Eshoo	D	CA	14	40.4%	3.1%	16.1%	0.5%	17.5%	$77,985	6.4%
42	Bart Stupak	D	MI	1	6.2%	1.1%	0.4%	2.4%	0.9%	$34,076	11.2%
43	Eliot L. Engel	D	NY	17	58.7%	32.3%	4.6%	0.4%	20.4%	$44,868	16.0%
44	Albert R. Wynn	D	MD	4	72.4%	57.3%	5.7%	0.3%	7.5%	$57,727	7.3%
45	Gene Green	D	TX	29	78.2%	9.8%	1.2%	0.2%	66.2%	$31,751	21.9%
46	Ted Strickland	D	OH	6	4.8%	2.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.8%	$32,888	14.0%
47	Diana DeGette	D	CO	1	45.7%	10.4%	2.8%	1.3%	30.0%	$39,658	13.7%
48	Lois Capps	D	CA	23	51.3%	2.2%	5.0%	1.2%	41.7%	$44,874	15.7%
49	Mike Doyle	D	PA	14	27.0%	22.3%	1.7%	0.2%	1.1%	$30,139	17.1%
50	Tom Allen	D	ME	1	3.6%	0.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.8%	$42,044	8.6%
51	Jim Davis	D	FL	11	51.7%	28.1%	2.1%	0.4%	20.0%	$33,559	17.5%
52	Jan Schakowsky	D	IL	9	37.5%	10.9%	12.4%	0.3%	11.5%	$46,531	11.0%
53	Hilda L. Solis	D	CA	32	85.2%	2.8%	18.7%	1.2%	62.3%	$41,394	18.0%
54	Charles A. Gonzalez	D	TX	20	76.7%	6.4%	1.5%	0.2%	67.2%	$31,937	19.9%
55	Jay Inslee	D	WA	1	18.4%	1.8%	7.9%	0.9%	4.3%	$58,565	5.6%
56	Tammy Baldwin	D	WI	2	11.0%	3.6%	2.4%	0.4%	3.4%	$46,979	8.7%
57	Mike Ross	D	AR	4	29.0%	24.5%	0.4%	0.5%	2.7%	$29,675	18.5%

* Minority includes all but White non-Hispanics and is therefore larger than the sum of other minorities shown

**Poverty includes families and individuals

Source: U.S. Census Bureau 108th Congressional District Summary Files and 109th Congress updates for Texas, Pennsylvania and Maine.

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