low-income

low-income (comparative lower-income, superlative lowest-income)

1. Not earning much money, or designed for people who do not earn much money.

   Antonym: high-income

   low-income housing

   low-income family

   • 2023 February 13, Chad Marlow & Jay Stanley, “How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers”, in ACLU‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 April 2025:

     We don’t find every use of ALPRs objectionable. For example, we do not generally object to using them to check license plates against lists of stolen cars, for AMBER Alerts, or for toll collection, provided they are deployed and used fairly and subject to proper checks and balances, such as ensuring devices are not disproportionately deployed in low-income communities and communities of color, and that the “hot lists” they are run against are legitimate and up to date.

   • 2023 July 18, Elisabeth Buchwald, “Americans aren’t rebuilding their savings fast enough”, in CNN Business‎^[2], archived from the original on 17 August 2023:

     In June 2021, the top-income quartile of Chase customers had a median cash buffer of 43 days, while the lowest-income quartile had a median cash buffer of 22 days.

• “low-income”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “low-income” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.