Laredo, East LA and Hialeah, among the Latino-heavy cities with the highest poverty rates in the U.S.

Homeless person's possessions in a cart (Credit: Creative Commons)

A new study of the ten census-designated cities with 100,000 or more residents and high Latino populations showed their poverty rates are 50% higher than the national average.

The ten communities, which include Laredo, Texas; East LA and Hialeah, Florida had an average poverty rate of 18.7%, considerably higher than the national poverty rate of 12.5% and the overall Latino poverty rate of 17.2%, the report by Axios shows.