Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox! Sign up! * I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its user agreement and privacy policy. Walker Moskop Walker Moskop is a data specialist and reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Follow Walker Moskop Close Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily! Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Save Manage followed notifications Close Followed notifications Please log in to use this feature Log In Don't have an account? Sign Up Today

The Great Recession may have ended in 2009, but years later, St. Louis area incomes and poverty rates are still worse than their pre-downturn levels. On Thursday the U.S. Census Bureau released its 2012 income and poverty estimates, which revealed little change from the year before, and showed that most counties have yet to recover from their considerable slides in income since the recession began in 2007.The estimates came from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, which is given to 3.5 million households each year. Because many smaller regions don't have large enough sample sizes, the survey provided only county-specific data for the St. Louis metro area's seven largest counties.Use the maps below to compare household income and poverty rate figures for those seven counties. Use the tabs to switch the type of map being displayed. 2007 income figures have been adjusted for inflation.