### Question
How is the term disadvantaged community defined?


### Answer
The term **disadvantaged community** is defined in *16 U.S.C. § 1015* as the following:

> a community (including a city, town, county, or reasonably isolated and divisible segment of a larger municipality) with an annual median household income that is less than 100 percent of the statewide annual median household income for the State in which the community is located, according to the most recent decennial census

#### Citation:
  - *16 U.S.C. § 1015*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 18A-COOPERATIVE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM**

