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Population 12,419,293 55,836 33,708 33,904 26,443 43,768 45,386 33,857 40,366 39,684
Under 18 3,245,451 12,306 7,128 8,430 6,474 10,526 7,939 7,862 9,428 9,119
18 & up 9,173,842 43,530 26,580 25,474 19,969 33,242 37,447 25,995 30,938 30,565
65 & up 1,500,025 9,780 6,093 5,642 4,781 6,742 3,457 5,303 8,023 6,470
Median Age 34.7 39.4 38.1 36.6 37.9 37.9 23 37.1 38.4 36.4
Black or African American (%) 15.1 6.3 10.2 24.4 13.8 3.1 7.7 2.5 4.7 17.2
Native American (%) 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.3
Asian (%) 3.4 0.7 1.0 1.2 1.0 1.4 2.2 0.4 0.5 0.8
Hispanic (%) 12.3 3.4 5.0 4.6 2.1 11.9 2.6 1.3 0.9 5.9
Total Households 4,591,779 22,056 13,237 13,327 11,222 18,492 15,157 13,380 16,546 16,148
Family Households (%) 67.6 65.4 59.7 61.2 61.0 62.7 54.0 65.8 61.1 59.1
Non-family Households (%) 32.4 34.6 40.3 38.8 39.0 37.3 46.0 34.2 38.9 40.9
Living Alone (%) 26.8 29.6 34.6 33.9 33.7 31.9 26.6 29.5 33.7 34.5
Households with Children under 18 (%) 36.2 30.3 28.9 31.9 30.7 31.0 28.4 33.7 30.9 29.7
Households including 65+ (%) 23.2 30.0 31.3 30.4 29.2 26.4 14.9 27.4 30.0 28.3
Average Household size 2.63 2.33 2.24 2.35 2.29 2.35 2.43 2.37 2.30 2.31
Average Family size 3.23 2.87 2.87 3.01 2.93 2.97 2.96 2.92 2.94 2.97
Owner-occupied households (%) 67.3 71.6 64.3 62.5 68.2 67.3 55.2 67.2 66.4 65.1
Renter-occupied households (%) 32.7 28.4 35.7 37.5 31.8 32.7 44.8 32.8 33.6 34.9
School Enrollment 3,450,604 13,125 8,108 7,982 6,682 10,679 23,318 7,863 10,358 11,337
Nursery/Preschool (%) 7.3 5.9 6.2 7.2 8.5 6.9 2.5 8.2 7.9 7.1
Kindergarten (%) 5.5 4.4 4.4 6.4 7.0 5.1 1.8 5.4 4.8 4.3
Grades 1-8 (%) 43.2 43.4 39.3 46.2 42.7 43.1 15.4 44.0 42.4 37.8
High School (%) 20.5 21.8 20.6 23.8 20.3 24.5 7.1 24.0 22.2 18.0
College or graduate school (%) 23.5 24.4 29.5 16.5 21.5 20.4 73.2 18.3 22.7 32.8
High School Graduates (%) 81.4 81.8 79.2 75.2 82.2 84.1 93.9 81.6 82.7 82.9
College Graduates (%) 26.1 14.6 14.9 15.7 17.1 20.8 42.4 13.4 19.3 18.7
Median household income 1999 $46,590 $35,407 $31,987 $30,431 $35,399 $39,363 $40,379 $37,972 $30,956 $34,729
Median family income 1999 $55,545 $44,010 $41,796 $39,308 $43,787 $48,207 $60,644 $46,346 $40,718 $45,127
Per capita income 1999 $23,104 $17,985 $17,214 $16,476 $18,680 $21,557 $17,775 $19,616 $17,474 $19,202
Families in poverty (%) 7.8 7.7 10.7 13.4 9.9 7.1 5.6 6.8 9.2 10.9
Families in poverty with Children (%) 11.6 14.0 19.6 21.3 16.2 12.3 8.3 10.7 14.8 19.1
Individuals in poverty (%) 10.7 11.1 14.7 18.1 13.1 9.5 19.3 9.4 12.2 14.5
Total Housing Units 4,885,615 23,717 14,115 14,686 12,479 19,495 15,636 14,002 17,995 17,507
Single-unit (%) 62.8 77.8 70.0 73.0 65.5 71.5 55.1 77.5 70.6 70.5
2 units (%) 6.9 5.2 7.3 4.7 8.5 6.8 2.4 3.1 8.8 7.2
3 or 4 units (%) 6.5 3.4 4.8 4.6 7.8 4.6 7.3 4.3 7.0 5.1
5 to 9 units (%) 6.2 2.8 4.0 5.9 5.2 5.1 11.4 6.2 4.5 4.0
10 to 19 units (%) 4.3 2.2 3.4 3.2 1.7 4.2 12.5 3.5 2.2 3.9
20 or more units (%) 10.1 4.2 6.6 6.4 4.9 6.3 7.5 4.7 3.6 7.9
Mobile homes (%) 3.2 4.3 3.9 2.2 6.4 1.5 3.7 0.7 3.3 1.3
other (%) 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1
Structures built since 1990 604,961 1,234 591 404 1,189 757 4,179 666 1,207 325
Structures built 1980-1989 473,462 1,167 628 718 825 1,041 2,287 730 738 807
Structures built 1970-1979 798,295 4,529 2,215 1,892 1,429 2,521 4,236 2,608 2,037 1,693
Structures built 1960-1969 715,007 2,509 1,431 2,071 1,486 2,955 2,188 2,613 2,178 2,491
Structures built 1940-1959 1,190,514 4,996 3,606 4,520 2,705 6,013 1,835 4,523 4,843 6,265
Structures built before 1940 1,103,376 9,282 5,644 5,081 4,845 6,208 911 2,862 6,992 5,926

Last Updated on 6/15/02
By Norm Winick
Email: editor@thezephyr.com