How to Use socioeconomic in a Sentence

socioeconomic

adjective
  • Their socioeconomic backgrounds are very different.
  • At this time, the closer you were buried to a church, the higher your socioeconomic status.
    — Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2025
  • These gains were shared across socioeconomic strata, as people moved from farms to cities and from cities to suburbs.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • A lot of these athletes come from poor socioeconomic backgrounds.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • There might also be a socioeconomic factor in play.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Too few people received shots, in large part due to socioeconomic factors.
    — Powel H. Kazanjian, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The researchers suggest that socioeconomic status is mainly a proxy for sleep and stress.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 12 June 2026
  • Many concluded that damages were far off in time and that socioeconomic systems would have time to adjust.
    — David Schimel, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • But the uptake of testing and shift in social norms has been polarized along socioeconomic lines.
    — Krithika Varagur, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The second would alter the four socioeconomic tiers.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The school recently led peer mid- to high-poverty schools in reading scores, and in closing racial and socioeconomic gaps.
    — al, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The school has tried to focus on special preference for socioeconomic status but that has not proven a perfect proxy for race.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 29 June 2023
  • His short stint in a holding cell with a crowd of people — a mix of races and socioeconomic backgrounds — only emboldened him.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2021
  • That the sport could be more accessible for kids, no matter their socioeconomic status.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 30 July 2025
  • Meanwhile results about who loses the most learning, whether by race or socioeconomic status or grade level, are all over the place.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 10 July 2023
  • In fact, most food gifts can transcend socioeconomic boundaries, age, and culture and serve as little acts of diplomacy.
    — Jamila Robinson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Nov. 2025
  • So studies in the US may show a lot more benefits, but those could be due to socioeconomic background.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 May 2021
  • But tax cuts and tariffs have varying effects for different rungs of the socioeconomic ladder.
    — Andrew Duehren, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • At the same time, the effects of the lockdown preyed on the same racial and socioeconomic disparities as many of society's ills.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Looking ahead, the team plans to refine its models by adding socioeconomic data and weather patterns.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The school flew the flag of élite access for first-generation students, but within that group it was set up to reward those at the socioeconomic top.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Lower socioeconomic status has been linked to a likelihood of poor health outcomes for children.
    — Jessica Rendall, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The reasons are layered and complex, as the lack of healthcare access, brought on by socioeconomic status, is a factor.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But the losses in population tended to be at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, and the state has grown steadily richer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The caste system is a tiered socioeconomic system that consigns people to a particular group, or caste.
    — Myriam Renaud, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
  • Where a school closed, the town often died, as in small towns, schools are not just socioeconomic hubs but centers of cultural and social cohesion.
    — Kayla Gabehart, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Others who forgo alcohol may not be able to afford it, and lower socioeconomic status comes with a host of health challenges.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • The reasons why people are delaying parenthood are socioeconomic and the state should step in and support those who want to have children.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 22 July 2024
  • Americans in the bottom third of the socioeconomic spectrum have been 48% more likely to die of the disease than those in the top third.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Secondly, there’s a divide in use, maybe for reasons of socioeconomic background.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2025

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