SAN JOSE — Despite being a nationwide leader in job growth, the Bay Area suffers from a poverty rate that still hovers near historic highs, with more than 800,000 people in the region living below the poverty line, a report released on Wednesday shows.

About 11.3 percent of Bay Area residents are living at or below the poverty level, according to the report, “Poverty in the Bay Area,” that was released by the Joint Venture Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies. The data reflects levels reached in 2013, the most recent year for which these statistics are available.

“Despite being one of the world’s wealthiest regions, there were 829,547 people living in poverty in the Bay Area in 2013,” the report stated. The study used federal poverty thresholds that ranged from annual income of $11,490 for a one-person household to $23,550 for a family of four.

“The Bay Area has a fast-growing frontier economy that is the starting point for much of the technology created nationwide,” said Jon Haveman, a San Rafael-based economist who prepared the report for Joint Venture Silicon Valley.

That has created some dislocation between those who are riding the innovation-fueled surge of job creation and wage growth, and those who don’t have the skills to keep up. And all of this is happening in a region with runaway housing and rental prices.

“The Bay Area does have something of a have and have-not economy,” Haveman said.

Despite the double-digit poverty levels in the Bay Area, the nine-county region is doing well when compared with trends in California, which has a 16.8 percent poverty rate, and the United States, at 15.8 percent.

San Francisco had the highest poverty level in the Bay Area in 2013 at 13.8 percent, the study found. Alameda County’s poverty rate was 12.9 percent, Contra Costa County was 10.8 percent and Santa Clara County was 10.5 percent. The lowest rate in the nine-county region was San Mateo County at 7.8 percent.

The poverty figures in the Bay Area are below the record level of 12 percent, an ominous benchmark that was reached in 2009 during the Great Recession. Yet the current levels are well above the historic average for Bay Area poverty of 9 percent.

Double-digit poverty rates in the Bay Area stand in stark contrast to the region’s other economic trends in recent years.

Over the 12 months that ended in February, Santa Clara County added jobs at an annual rate of 5.4 percent — the strongest growth in the nation.

During the third quarter that ended in September, Santa Clara County was the nation’s leader in average wages, with an eye-catching weekly wage of $2,012, according to a federal report. That study also found that three of the top five metro areas in the nation for weekly wages were from the Bay Area: the South Bay at No. 2, San Mateo County at No. 2, and San Francisco County at No. 4.

The poverty rate in the Bay Area was 11.7 percent in 2012, slightly higher than the most recent rate for the region. The peak level for poverty in the Bay Area was in 2011, at 11.8 percent.

“Poverty is an integral part of our persistent growth issues like high housing costs and income inequality,” said Rachel Massaro, senior research associate with Joint Venture Silicon Valley.

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