The median income of households was $49,445 as estimated by the Census Bureau in 2010. Median family income was $61,544, with married-couple families having a higher median income ($72,751). For females with no husband present, the median income was $32,031. With a male householder and no wife present, the median income was $49,718. Real median household income and family income are now at their highest levels since the Census Bureau started compiling these estimates in 1967. Asians continued to have the highest median household income. White households had the second highest, followed by Hispanic households and Black households. In 2010, the poverty rate (15.1 percent) rose for the third straight year after several years of decline (DeNavas-Walt et al. 2011). It might appear from the data that marriage may increase the odds of affluence. (See Hirschl et al. 2003 for a discussion of this hypothesis.)