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CUR-1 DUG · U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, ACS 5-YEAR, PULLED NOVEMBER 11, 2026
The banked leg could gesture at Walkerton's poverty; the Census Bureau's own series now prices it, vintage by vintage, and the direction is the story. From the American Community Survey's five-year subject table (S1701, percent of residents below poverty, Walkerton town), pulled directly from the Census API in this section: 2020, 13.5 percent; 2021, 14.6 percent; 2022, 13.7 percent; 2023, 11.4 percent; 2024, 8.8 percent. Five vintages, one shape: a pandemic-era peak in the 2021 estimates and a fall of nearly six points by the 2024 vintage, to below nine percent — the town's measured poverty roughly halved across the span the five-year windows cover. The citation carries its release discipline: the 2020–2024 ACS five-year estimates were publicly released on January 29, 2026 (the release had been scheduled for December 11, 2025 and slipped; the media embargo lifted January 27, 2026), and the figure prints as an estimate from that release, not a count. The trend is printed as the Bureau prints it — successive five-year windows overlap by four years, so the vintages move slowly by construction; the fall is real in the series and smoothed by the instrument, and both halves of that sentence belong in the record.
Principal sources: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Subject Table S1701 (S1701_C03_001E), Walkerton town (place 79694), via api.census.gov, pulled November 11, 2026; Census Bureau ACS release schedule (2020–2024 five-year release, January 29, 2026).
The API has since moved behind a key gate, and no key was taken out for this build; the series could not be re-pulled from this seat for this printing, and it is carried as pulled, with the blocker named, rather than at silently re-verified strength. The Bureau's published ACS tables (data.census.gov) are the settler for its confirmation.