Empowerment Zones

Urban areas. Parts of the following urban areas were empowerment zones.

• Pulaski County, AR

• Tucson, AZ

• Fresno, CA

• Los Angeles, CA (city and county)

• Santa Ana, CA

• New Haven, CT

• Jacksonville, FL

• Miami/Dade County, FL

• Chicago, IL

• Gary/Hammond/East Chicago, IN

• Boston, MA

• Baltimore, MD

• Detroit, MI

• Minneapolis, MN

• St. Louis, MO/East St. Louis, IL

• Cumberland County, NJ

• New York, NY

• Syracuse, NY

• Yonkers, NY

• Cincinnati, OH

• Cleveland, OH

• Columbus, OH

• Oklahoma City, OK

• Philadelphia, PA/Camden, NJ

• Columbia/Sumter, SC

• Knoxville, TN

• El Paso, TX

• San Antonio, TX

• Norfolk/Portsmouth, VA

• Huntington, WV/Ironton, OH

Rural Areas

• CA Desert Communities, CA (part of Riverside County)

• GA Southwest Georgia United, GA (part of Crisp County and all of Dooly County)

• IL Southernmost Illinois Delta, IL (parts of Alexander and Johnson Counties and all of Pulaski County)

• KY Kentucky Highlands, KY (part of Wayne County and all of Clinton and Jackson Counties)

• ME Aroostook County, ME (part of Aroostook County)

• MS Mid-Delta, MS (parts of Bolivar, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower, and Washington Counties)

• ND Griggs-Steele, ND (part of Griggs County and all of Steele County)

• SD Oglala Sioux Tribe, SD (parts of Jackson and Bennett Counties and all of Shannon County)

• TX Middle Rio Grande FUTURO Communities, TX (parts of Dimmit, Maverick, Uvalde, and Zavala Counties)

• TX Rio Grande Valley, TX (parts of Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy Counties)