Profile of Los Angeles County Population Characteristics 2000

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Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000

Geographic Area: Los Angeles city, California

[For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]

Subject Number Percent

Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,694,820 100.0

SEX AND AGEMale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,841,805 49.8

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,853,015 50.2Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285,976 7.75 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297,837 8.110 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255,604 6.915 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251,632 6.820 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299,906 8.125 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674,098 18.235 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584,036 15.845 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428,974 11.655 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,965 3.960 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,663 3.165 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187,111 5.175 to 84 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,829 3.485 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,189 1.2

Median age (years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.6 (X)

18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,713,509 73.4Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,339,269 36.2Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,374,240 37.2

21 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,545,346 68.962 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423,568 11.565 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357,129 9.7

Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148,051 4.0Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209,078 5.7

RACEOne race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,503,532 94.8

White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,734,036 46.9Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415,195 11.2American Indian and Alaska Native. . . . . . . . . . . 29,412 0.8Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369,254 10.0

Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,739 0.7Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,075 1.7Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,062 2.7Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,992 1.0Korean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,595 2.5Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,747 0.5Other Asian 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,044 0.9

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . 5,915 0.2Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,379 -Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955 -Samoan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,641 -Other Pacific Islander 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,940 0.1

Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949,720 25.7Two or more races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191,288 5.2

Race alone or in combination with oneor more other races: 3

White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,891,358 51.2Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444,635 12.0American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,092 1.4Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407,444 11.0Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . . . 13,144 0.4Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,086,167 29.4


HISPANIC OR LATINO AND RACETotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,694,820 100.0

Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,719,073 46.5Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,091,686 29.5

Puerto Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,427 0.4Cuban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,431 0.3Other Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601,529 16.3

Not Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,975,747 53.5White alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,099,188 29.7

RELATIONSHIPTotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,694,820 100.0

In households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,612,223 97.8Householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,275,412 34.5Spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534,991 14.5Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,117,461 30.2

Own child under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836,381 22.6Other relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390,839 10.6

Under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,208 3.2Nonrelatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293,520 7.9

Unmarried partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,690 2.2

In group quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,597 2.2Institutionalized population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,446 0.8Noninstitutionalized population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,151 1.4

HOUSEHOLD BY TYPETotal households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,275,412 100.0

Family households (families) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798,719 62.6With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 427,282 33.5

Married-couple family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534,991 41.9With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 288,841 22.6

Female householder, no husband present . . . . . 185,486 14.5With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 104,867 8.2

Nonfamily households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476,693 37.4Householder living alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363,457 28.5

Householder 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,067 7.4

Households with individuals under 18 years . . . . . 478,946 37.6

Households with individuals 65 years and over . . 262,689 20.6

Average household size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.83 (X)Average family size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.56 (X)

HOUSING OCCUPANCYTotal housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,337,706 100.0

Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,275,412 95.3Vacant housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,294 4.7

For seasonal, recreational, oroccasional use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,876 0.4

Homeowner vacancy rate (percent) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 (X)Rental vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 (X)

HOUSING TENUREOccupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,275,412 100.0

Owner-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491,882 38.6Renter-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783,530 61.4

Average household size of owner-occupied units. 2.99 (X)Average household size of renter-occupied units . 2.73 (X)

- Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.1 Other Asian alone, or two or more Asian categories.2 Other Pacific Islander alone, or two or more Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander categories.3 In combination with one or more of the other races listed. The six numbers may add to more than the total population and the six percentages

may add to more than 100 percent because individuals may report more than one race.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000.

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Table DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000

Geographic area: Los Angeles city, California

[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]


SCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and over

enrolled in school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,099,627 100.0Nursery school, preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,352 5.6

Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,450 5.9Elementary school (grades 1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460,475 41.9High school (grades 9-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225,818 20.5College or graduate school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287,532 26.1

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTPopulation 25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . 2,308,887 100.0

Less than 9th grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437,758 19.09th to 12th grade, no diploma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332,414 14.4High school graduate (includes equivalency). . . . . 401,938 17.4Some college, no degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424,785 18.4Associate degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,931 5.3Bachelors degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379,630 16.4Graduate or professional degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209,431 9.1

Percent high school graduate or higher . . . . . . . . . 66.6 (X)Percent bachelors degree or higher . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.5 (X)

MARITAL STATUSPopulation 15 years and over. . . . . . . . . . 2,853,991 100.0

Never married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,058,959 37.1Now married, except separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,300,180 45.6Separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,946 3.5Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,678 5.4

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126,200 4.4Divorced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239,228 8.4

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,088 4.9

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERSGrandparent living in household with

one or more own grandchildren under18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,586 100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren . . . . . . 30,511 28.4

VETERAN STATUSCivilian population 18 years and over . . 2,714,608 100.0

Civilian veterans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,683 6.4

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIANNONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

Population 5 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859,680 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,120 8.4

Population 21 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,175,020 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503,737 23.2

Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.6 (X)No disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,671,283 76.8

Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.6 (X)

Population 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 345,133 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157,769 45.7

RESIDENCE IN 1995Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . 3,412,889 100.0

Same house in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,689,891 49.5Different house in the U.S. in 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500,655 44.0

Same county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,260,399 36.9Different county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240,256 7.0

Same state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,532 3.2Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,724 3.8

Elsewhere in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222,343 6.5


NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTHTotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,694,834 100.0

Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,182,114 59.1Born in United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,150,322 58.2

State of residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,485,576 40.2Different state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664,746 18.0

Born outside United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,792 0.9Foreign born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,512,720 40.9

Entered 1990 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569,771 15.4Naturalized citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509,841 13.8Not a citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,002,879 27.1

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORNTotal (excluding born at sea) .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,512,708 100.0

Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,252 6.6Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376,767 24.9Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,730 1.4Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,104 0.3Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996,996 65.9Northern America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,859 0.9

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOMEPopulation 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,412,889 100.0English only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,438,573 42.2Language other than English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,974,316 57.8

Speak English less than very well . . . . . . . . 1,113,153 32.6Spanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,422,316 41.7

Speak English less than very well . . . . . . . . 853,038 25.0Other Indo-European languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225,309 6.6

Speak English less than very well . . . . . . . . 92,706 2.7Asian and Pacific Island languages . . . . . . . . . . . 278,173 8.2

Speak English less than very well . . . . . . . . 150,912 4.4

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,694,834 100.0Total ancestries reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,664,157 99.2

Arab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,937 0.7Czech1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,393 0.3

Danish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,270 0.3Dutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,200 0.5English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,632 3.5French (except Basque)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,415 1.3French Canadian1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,178 0.2German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167,160 4.5Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,016 0.3Hungarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,612 0.5Irish1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,188 3.8Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,263 2.6Lithuanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,800 0.2Norwegian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,111 0.6Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,670 1.5Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,228 0.1Russian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,419 2.4Scotch-Irish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,037 0.6Scottish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,048 0.8Slovak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,792 -Subsaharan African. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,946 0.8Swedish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,026 0.6Swiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,169 0.2Ukrainian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,292 0.3United States or American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,294 2.6Welsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,233 0.3West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) . . . . . . . . 17,241 0.5Other ancestries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,559,587 69.3

-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.1The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsa-

tian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.

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Table DP-3. Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics: 2000




EMPLOYMENT STATUSPopulation 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,809,852 100.0

In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,690,316 60.2Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,688,652 60.1

Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,532,074 54.5Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156,578 5.6Percent of civilian labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.3 (X)

Armed Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,664 0.1Not in labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,119,536 39.8

Females 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,426,430 100.0In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756,303 53.0

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755,972 53.0Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680,733 47.7

Own children under 6 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313,831 100.0All parents in family in labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145,998 46.5

COMMUTING TO WORKWorkers 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,494,895 100.0

Car, truck, or van - - drove alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982,735 65.7Car, truck, or van - - carpooled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220,408 14.7

Public transportation (including taxicab) . . . . . . . . . 152,435 10.2Walked. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,386 3.6Other means. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,236 1.6Worked at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,695 4.1Mean travel time to work (minutes)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.6 (X)

Employed civilian population16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,532,074 100.0

OCCUPATIONManagement, professional, and related

occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524,440 34.2Service occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245,498 16.0Sales and office occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409,696 26.7Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . 2,511 0.2Construction, extraction, and maintenance

occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,561 7.7Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232,368 15.2

INDUSTRYAgriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting,

and mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,158 0.2Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,032 5.3Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202,277 13.2Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,691 4.0Retail trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158,118 10.3Transportation and warehousing, and utilities . . . . 60,867 4.0Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,285 7.0Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental and

leasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,032 7.1Professional, scientific, management, adminis-

trative, and waste management services. . . . . . . 197,876 12.9Educational, health and social services . . . . . . . . . 265,613 17.3Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation

and food services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,462 9.6Other services (except public administration) . . . . 105,037 6.9Public administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,626 2.3

CLASS OF WORKERPrivate wage and salary workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,209,942 79.0Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162,402 10.6Self-employed workers in own not incorporated

business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,551 10.0Unpaid family workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,179 0.4


INCOME IN 1999Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,276,609 100.0

Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169,738 13.3$10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,131 7.5

$15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182,068 14.3$25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163,520 12.8$35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,855 14.6$50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198,145 15.5$75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,198 8.4$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,558 7.4$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,418 2.5$200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,978 3.7Median household income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,687 (X)

With earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,052,073 82.4Mean earnings (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,641 (X)

With Social Security income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234,939 18.4Mean Social Security income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . 10,831 (X)

With Supplemental Security Income . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,925 6.0Mean Supplemental Security Income

(dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,968 (X)

With public assistance income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,017 6.9Mean public assistance income (dollars)1 . . . . . 4,772 (X)With retirement income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,472 10.4

Mean retirement income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,336 (X)

Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807,039 100.0Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,406 10.0$10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,912 7.4$15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,692 14.6$25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,635 12.7$35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,119 14.5$50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,202 15.9$75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,400 9.2$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,897 8.4$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,631 2.9$200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,145 4.4Median family income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,942 (X)

Per capita income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,671 (X)Median earnings (dollars):Male full-time, year-round workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,880 (X)Female full-time, year-round workers . . . . . . . . . . . 30,197 (X)

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POVERTY STATUS IN 1999Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,516 18.3

With related children under 18 years.. . . . . . . . . . . 122,289 25.3With related children under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . 66,008 29.5

Families with female householder, no

husband present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,396 32.7With related children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,131 42.2

With related children under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . 25,351 50.9

Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801,050 22.118 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507,021 19.0

65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,550 12.6Related children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288,496 30.3

Related children 5 to 17 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202,296 29.9Unrelated individuals 15 years and over.. . . . . . . . 209,431 27.7

-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.1If the denominator of a mean value or per capita value is less than 30, then that value is calculated using a rounded aggregate in the numerator.

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Total housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,337,668 100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524,787 39.21-unit, attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,776 6.6

2 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,814 3.23 or 4 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,253 6.45 to 9 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126,263 9.410 to 19 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138,634 10.420 or more units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322,059 24.1Mobile home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,222 0.6Boat, RV, van, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860 0.1

YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,250 0.51995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,363 1.91990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,785 3.71980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148,376 11.11970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,978 15.01960 to 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234,429 17.51940 to 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447,923 33.51939 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223,564 16.7

ROOMS1 room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175,586 13.12 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215,318 16.13 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247,136 18.54 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204,888 15.35 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187,634 14.06 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,799 10.77 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,756 6.08 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,150 3.39 or more rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,401 2.9Median (rooms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7 (X)

Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,275,358 100.0YEAR HOUSEHOLDER MOVED INTO UNIT1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284,707 22.3

1995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435,471 34.11990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187,079 14.71980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163,979 12.91970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,411 8.31969 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,711 7.7

VEHICLES AVAILABLENone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210,770 16.51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514,087 40.32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394,941 31.03 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,560 12.2

HOUSE HEATING FUELUtility gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940,097 73.7Bottled, tank, or LP gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,170 1.3Electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260,453 20.4Fuel oil, kerosene, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647 0.1

Coal or coke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 -Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,881 0.1Solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,137 0.2Other fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,117 0.2No fuel used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,732 3.9

SELECTED CHARACTERISTICSLacking complete plumbing faci lities . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,682 1.3Lacking complete kitchen facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,606 2.1No telephone service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,672 2.2


OCCUPANTS PER ROOMOccupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,275,358 100.0

1.00 or less. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949,260 74.41.01 to 1.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,716 7.5

1.51 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230,382 18.1

Specified owner-occupied units. . . . . . . . 412,804 100.0VALUELess than $50,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,778 1.2$50,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,187 3.4$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,459 16.3$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,548 23.4$200,000 to $299,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,099 22.3$300,000 to $499,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,366 18.5$500,000 to $999,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,866 11.1$1,000,000 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,501 3.8Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221,600 (X)

MORTGAGE STATUS AND SELECTEDMONTHLY OWNER COSTS

With a mortgage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317,808 77.0Less than $300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,072 0.3$300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,668 1.4$500 to $699 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,273 3.0$700 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,082 7.8$1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,999 22.0$1,500 to $1,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,316 18.2$2,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,398 24.3Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,556 (X)

Not mortgaged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,996 23.0Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 (X)

SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTSAS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDINCOME IN 1999

Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,423 27.215.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,551 12.7

20.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,014 12.125.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,169 10.030.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,625 7.435.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,502 29.4Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,520 1.1

Specified renter-occupied units . . . . . . . . 782,164 100.0GROSS RENTLess than $200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,720 2.8$200 to $299 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,915 2.9$300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,579 15.8$500 to $749 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,153 38.4$750 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162,156 20.7$1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,720 13.0$1,500 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,384 4.5No cash rent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,537 1.9Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672 (X)

GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OFHOUSEHOLD INCOME IN 1999

Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,922 14.115.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,208 12.320.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,351 12.125.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,798 10.730.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,372 8.135.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289,898 37.1Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,615 5.7

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