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Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000Geographic Area: Anchorage municipality, Alaska

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

Subject Number Percent

Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260,283 100.0

SEX AND AGEMale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,668 50.6Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,615 49.4

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,033 7.75 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,867 8.410 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,501 8.315 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,662 7.620 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,694 6.825 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,113 15.435 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,210 18.545 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,803 14.955 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,240 4.360 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,918 2.765 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,895 3.475 to 84 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,284 1.685 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,063 0.4

Median age (years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.4 (X)

18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184,412 70.9Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,953 35.7Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,459 35.1

21 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,564 66.762 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,082 6.965 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,242 5.5

Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,268 2.4Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,974 3.1

RACEOne race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244,708 94.0

White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188,009 72.2Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,199 5.8American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . 18,941 7.3Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,433 5.5

Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 0.2Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870 0.3Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,805 2.2Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899 0.3Korean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,432 1.3Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 0.1Other Asian 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,594 1.0

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . 2,423 0.9Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 0.2Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 -Samoan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,428 0.5Other Pacific Islander 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 0.2

Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,703 2.2Two or more races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,575 6.0

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

White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,926 77.2Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,632 7.2American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,995 10.4Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,448 7.1Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . . . 3,637 1.4Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,506 3.3


HISPANIC OR LATINO AND RACETotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260,283 100.0

Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,799 5.7Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,246 2.8Puerto Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,652 0.6Cuban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 0.1Other Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,558 2.1

Not Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245,484 94.3White alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181,982 69.9

RELATIONSHIPTotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260,283 100.0

In households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253,269 97.3Householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,822 36.4Spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,421 18.6Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,107 31.5

Own child under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,516 26.7Other relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,971 3.8

Under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,872 1.5Nonrelatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,948 6.9

Unmarried partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,961 2.7In group quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,014 2.7

Institutionalized population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,915 0.7Noninstitutionalized population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,099 2.0

HOUSEHOLD BY TYPETotal households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,822 100.0

Family households (families). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,131 67.6With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 36,868 38.9

Married-couple family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,421 51.1With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 25,932 27.3

Female householder, no husband present . . . . . 10,884 11.5With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 7,839 8.3

Nonfamily households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,691 32.4Householder living alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,142 23.4

Householder 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,586 3.8

Households with individuals under 18 years . . . . . 39,423 41.6Households with individuals 65 years and over . . 10,439 11.0

Average household size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.67 (X)Average family size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.19 (X)

HOUSING OCCUPANCYTotal housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,368 100.0

Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,822 94.5Vacant housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,546 5.5

For seasonal, recreational, oroccasional use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,107 1.1

Homeowner vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 (X)Rental vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3 (X)

HOUSING TENUREOccupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,822 100.0

Owner-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,953 60.1Renter-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,869 39.9

Average household size of owner-occupied units. 2.81 (X)Average household size of renter-occupied units . 2.46 (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: 2000Geographic area: Anchorage municipality, Alaska

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


SCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and overenrolled in school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,625 100.0

Nursery school, preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,160 5.6Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,133 5.5Elementary school (grades 1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,485 47.6High school (grades 9-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,678 21.0College or graduate school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,169 20.3

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTPopulation 25 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 159,931 100.0

Less than 9th grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,913 3.19th to 12th grade, no diploma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,609 6.6High school graduate (includes equivalency). . . . . 38,741 24.2Some college, no degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,789 29.3Associate degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,639 7.9Bachelor’s degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,865 18.7Graduate or professional degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,375 10.2

Percent high school graduate or higher . . . . . . . . . 90.3 (X)Percent bachelor’s degree or higher . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.9 (X)

MARITAL STATUSPopulation 15 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 197,054 100.0

Never married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,016 28.4Now married, except separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105,804 53.7Separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,156 2.1Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,400 3.2

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,183 2.6Divorced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,678 12.5

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,576 6.9

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERSGrandparent living in household withone or more own grandchildren under18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,847 100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren . . . . . . 1,719 44.7

VETERAN STATUSCivilian population 18 years and over . . 176,148 100.0

Civilian veterans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,920 17.6

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIANNONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

Population 5 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,183 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,042 7.7

Population 21 to 64 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151,404 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,154 15.3

Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.6 (X)No disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,250 84.7

Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.7 (X)

Population 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 13,561 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,084 44.9

RESIDENCE IN 1995Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . 240,627 100.0

Same house in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,167 41.6Different house in the U.S. in 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133,743 55.6

Same county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,553 32.2Different county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,190 23.4

Same state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,047 5.4Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,143 17.9

Elsewhere in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,717 2.8


NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTHTotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260,283 100.0

Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239,005 91.8Born in United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233,672 89.8

State of residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,516 32.1Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,156 57.7

Born outside United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,333 2.0Foreign born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,278 8.2

Entered 1990 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,173 3.1Naturalized citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,631 4.5Not a citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,647 3.7

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORNTotal (excluding born at sea). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,278 100.0

Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,069 19.1Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,537 49.5Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 1.1Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588 2.8Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,549 21.4Northern America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,291 6.1

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOMEPopulation 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240,627 100.0

English only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207,818 86.4Language other than English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,809 13.6

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 12,710 5.3Spanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,580 4.0

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 3,837 1.6Other Indo-European languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,424 2.7

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 1,482 0.6Asian and Pacific Island languages . . . . . . . . . . . 12,872 5.3

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 6,627 2.8

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260,283 100.0Total ancestries reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287,978 110.6

Arab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556 0.2Czech1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,504 0.6Danish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,239 0.9Dutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,888 1.9English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,123 10.0French (except Basque)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,848 3.4French Canadian1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,872 1.1German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,770 17.6Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843 0.3Hungarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,123 0.4Irish1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,205 11.6Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,264 3.2Lithuanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 0.2Norwegian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,988 3.8Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,103 2.3Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919 0.4Russian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,098 1.2Scotch-Irish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,565 1.8Scottish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,943 2.7Slovak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 0.1Subsaharan African. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,238 0.5Swedish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,707 2.6Swiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,018 0.4Ukrainian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 0.2United States or American. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,614 6.0Welsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,288 0.9West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) . . . . . . . . 831 0.3Other ancestries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,094 36.2

-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: 2000Geographic area: Anchorage municipality, Alaska[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]


EMPLOYMENT STATUSPopulation 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 192,782 100.0

In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,350 74.4Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,847 69.9

Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,737 65.2Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,110 4.7

Percent of civilian labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.8 (X)Armed Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,503 4.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,432 25.6

Females 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,495 100.0In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,206 68.3

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,776 66.8Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,138 63.0

Own children under 6 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,747 100.0All parents in family in labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,785 60.6

COMMUTING TO WORKWorkers 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,228 100.0

Car, truck, or van - - drove alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,591 74.4Car, truck, or van - - carpooled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,207 14.6Public transportation (including taxicab) . . . . . . . . . 2,646 2.0Walked. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,493 2.7Other means. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,421 2.6Worked at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,870 3.7Mean travel time to work (minutes)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.5 (X)

Employed civilian population16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,737 100.0

OCCUPATIONManagement, professional, and relatedoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,271 36.8

Service occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,970 15.1Sales and office occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,834 28.5Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . 432 0.3Construction, extraction, and maintenanceoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,136 9.7

Production, transportation, and material movingoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,094 9.6

INDUSTRYAgriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting,and mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,886 3.1

Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,995 6.4Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,542 2.0Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,428 3.5Retail trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,327 12.2Transportation and warehousing, and utilities . . . . 11,809 9.4Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,079 3.2Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental andleasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,654 6.1

Professional, scientific, management, adminis-trative, and waste management services . . . . . . . 12,845 10.2

Educational, health and social services . . . . . . . . . 24,532 19.5Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodationand food services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,342 9.0

Other services (except public administration) . . . . 7,156 5.7Public administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,142 9.7

CLASS OF WORKERPrivate wage and salary workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,023 70.8Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,646 22.0Self-employed workers in own not incorporatedbusiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,819 7.0

Unpaid family workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 0.2


INCOME IN 1999Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,080 100.0

Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,948 4.2$10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,774 4.0$15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,936 9.4$25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,251 10.8$35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,199 16.0$50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,506 22.6$75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,597 14.3$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,266 12.9$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,203 3.4$200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,400 2.5Median household income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,546 (X)

With earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,306 90.8Mean earnings (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,232 (X)

With Social Security income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,760 12.4Mean Social Security income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . 10,604 (X)

With Supplemental Security Income . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,871 3.0Mean Supplemental Security Income(dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,472 (X)

With public assistance income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,645 7.0Mean public assistance income (dollars)1 . . . . . 4,660 (X)

With retirement income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,713 14.4Mean retirement income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,491 (X)

Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,833 100.0Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,814 2.8$10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,737 2.7$15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,969 7.7$25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,789 8.9$35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,219 14.2$50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,426 23.8$75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,859 16.7$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,342 16.0$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,702 4.2$200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,976 3.0Median family income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,682 (X)

Per capita income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,287 (X)Median earnings (dollars):Male full-time, year-round workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,267 (X)Female full-time, year-round workers . . . . . . . . . . . 31,747 (X)

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POVERTY STATUS IN 1999Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,293 5.1

With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,935 7.4With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 1,701 11.1

Families with female householder, nohusband present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,791 17.0

With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,731 21.0With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 930 32.4

Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,682 7.318 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,821 6.6

65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865 6.4Related children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,441 8.8

Related children 5 to 17 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,355 8.0Unrelated individuals 15 years and over. . . . . . . . . 7,306 15.2

-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.See text.


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Table DP-4. Profile of Selected Housing Characteristics: 2000Geographic area: Anchorage municipality, Alaska



Total housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,368 100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,529 46.41-unit, attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,887 10.82 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,178 6.23 or 4 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,365 10.35 to 9 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,962 7.910 to 19 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,241 4.220 or more units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,295 8.3Mobile home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,824 5.8Boat, RV, van, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 0.1

YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,019 2.01995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,694 5.71990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,968 4.91980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,307 28.21970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,828 34.71960 to 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,869 13.81940 to 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,068 10.01939 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615 0.6

ROOMS1 room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,442 2.42 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,686 6.73 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,598 10.64 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,448 18.45 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,086 19.06 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,799 14.77 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,763 11.78 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,421 8.49 or more rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,125 8.1Median (rooms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 (X)

Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,822 100.0YEAR HOUSEHOLDER MOVED INTO UNIT1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,476 27.91995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,202 34.01990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,399 16.21980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,040 13.81970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,622 5.91969 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,083 2.2

VEHICLES AVAILABLENone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,077 6.41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,258 35.12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,410 41.63 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,077 17.0

HOUSE HEATING FUELUtility gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,128 83.4Bottled, tank, or LP gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860 0.9Electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,405 13.1Fuel oil, kerosene, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939 1.0Coal or coke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 -Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 0.3Solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 -Other fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625 0.7No fuel used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 0.6

SELECTED CHARACTERISTICSLacking complete plumbing facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 472 0.5Lacking complete kitchen facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 0.6No telephone service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790 0.8


OCCUPANTS PER ROOMOccupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,822 100.0

1.00 or less. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,224 94.11.01 to 1.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,313 3.51.51 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,285 2.4

Specified owner-occupied units . . . . . . . . 44,192 100.0VALUELess than $50,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 0.6$50,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,667 8.3$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,566 33.0$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,854 33.6$200,000 to $299,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,115 18.4$300,000 to $499,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,205 5.0$500,000 to $999,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 1.0$1,000,000 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 0.2Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160,700 (X)

MORTGAGE STATUS AND SELECTEDMONTHLY OWNER COSTS

With a mortgage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,026 86.0Less than $300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 -$300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 0.6$500 to $699 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683 1.5$700 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,920 11.1$1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,453 35.0$1,500 to $1,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,348 25.7$2,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,336 12.1Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,429 (X)

Not mortgaged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,166 14.0Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 (X)

SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTSAS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDINCOME IN 1999

Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,054 27.315.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,523 19.320.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,584 17.225.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,552 12.630.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,305 7.535.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,004 15.8Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 0.4

Specified renter-occupied units . . . . . . . . 37,819 100.0GROSS RENTLess than $200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 0.8$200 to $299 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610 1.6$300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,308 8.7$500 to $749 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,063 37.2$750 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,691 25.6$1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,445 14.4$1,500 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,348 3.6No cash rent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,058 8.1Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736 (X)

GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OFHOUSEHOLD INCOME IN 1999

Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,770 15.315.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,582 14.820.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,116 13.525.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,331 11.530.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,024 8.035.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,690 28.3Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,306 8.7

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

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


Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626,932 100.0

SEX AND AGEMale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,112 51.7Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302,820 48.3

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,591 7.65 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,771 8.610 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,661 9.015 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,094 8.020 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,892 6.425 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,473 14.335 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,049 18.245 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,952 15.155 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,423 4.460 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,327 2.865 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,507 3.675 to 84 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,558 1.785 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,634 0.4

Median age (years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.4 (X)

18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436,215 69.6Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226,111 36.1Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210,104 33.5

21 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410,474 65.562 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,300 7.265 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,699 5.7

Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,724 2.7Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,975 3.0

RACEOne race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592,786 94.6

White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434,534 69.3Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,787 3.5American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . 98,043 15.6Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,116 4.0

Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723 0.1Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,464 0.2Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,712 2.0Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,414 0.2Korean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,573 0.7Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814 0.1Other Asian 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,416 0.5

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . 3,309 0.5Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695 0.1Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 -Samoan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,670 0.3Other Pacific Islander 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717 0.1

Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,997 1.6Two or more races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,146 5.4

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

White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463,999 74.0Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,147 4.3American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,241 19.0Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,686 5.2Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . . . 5,515 0.9Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,151 2.4


HISPANIC OR LATINO AND RACETotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626,932 100.0

Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,852 4.1Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,334 2.1Puerto Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,649 0.4Cuban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 0.1Other Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,316 1.5

Not Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601,080 95.9White alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423,788 67.6

RELATIONSHIPTotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626,932 100.0

In households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607,583 96.9Householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221,600 35.3Spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,318 18.6Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206,127 32.9

Own child under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174,113 27.8Other relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,481 3.9

Under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,808 1.7Nonrelatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,057 6.2

Unmarried partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,568 2.6In group quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,349 3.1

Institutionalized population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,824 0.8Noninstitutionalized population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,525 2.3

HOUSEHOLD BY TYPETotal households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221,600 100.0

Family households (families). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,337 68.7With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 88,484 39.9

Married-couple family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,318 52.5With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 63,245 28.5

Female householder, no husband present . . . . . 23,937 10.8With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 17,243 7.8

Nonfamily households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,263 31.3Householder living alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,060 23.5

Householder 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,985 4.1

Households with individuals under 18 years . . . . . 95,129 42.9Households with individuals 65 years and over . . 26,349 11.9

Average household size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.74 (X)Average family size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.28 (X)

HOUSING OCCUPANCYTotal housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260,978 100.0

Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221,600 84.9Vacant housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,378 15.1

For seasonal, recreational, oroccasional use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,474 8.2

Homeowner vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.9 (X)Rental vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.8 (X)

HOUSING TENUREOccupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221,600 100.0

Owner-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138,509 62.5Renter-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,091 37.5

Average household size of owner-occupied units. 2.89 (X)Average household size of renter-occupied units . 2.49 (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.


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



SCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and overenrolled in school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,760 100.0

Nursery school, preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,804 5.8Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,078 5.4Elementary school (grades 1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,027 49.0High school (grades 9-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,548 22.4College or graduate school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,303 17.4

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTPopulation 25 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 379,556 100.0

Less than 9th grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,663 4.19th to 12th grade, no diploma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,619 7.5High school graduate (includes equivalency). . . . . 105,812 27.9Some college, no degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,442 28.6Associate degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,213 7.2Bachelor’s degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,196 16.1Graduate or professional degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,611 8.6

Percent high school graduate or higher . . . . . . . . . 88.3 (X)Percent bachelor’s degree or higher . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.7 (X)

MARITAL STATUSPopulation 15 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 468,861 100.0

Never married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133,271 28.4Now married, except separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255,682 54.5Separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,268 2.0Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,990 3.4

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,568 2.7Divorced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,650 11.7

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,306 6.0

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERSGrandparent living in household withone or more own grandchildren under18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,423 100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren . . . . . . 5,419 52.0

VETERAN STATUSCivilian population 18 years and over . . 419,320 100.0

Civilian veterans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,552 17.1

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIANNONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

Population 5 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165,698 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,406 6.9

Population 21 to 64 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357,706 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,965 15.6

Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.3 (X)No disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301,741 84.4

Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.7 (X)

Population 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 34,301 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,849 46.2

RESIDENCE IN 1995Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . 579,740 100.0

Same house in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267,958 46.2Different house in the U.S. in 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299,218 51.6

Same county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160,335 27.7Different county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138,883 24.0

Same state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,321 7.5Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,562 16.5

Elsewhere in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,564 2.2


NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTHTotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626,932 100.0

Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589,762 94.1Born in United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579,549 92.4

State of residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238,613 38.1Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340,936 54.4

Born outside United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,213 1.6Foreign born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,170 5.9

Entered 1990 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,753 2.4Naturalized citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,011 3.2Not a citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,159 2.7

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORNTotal (excluding born at sea). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,170 100.0

Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,425 20.0Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,826 50.6Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 1.0Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997 2.7Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,658 17.9Northern America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,895 7.8

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOMEPopulation 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579,740 100.0

English only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496,982 85.7Language other than English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,758 14.3

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 30,842 5.3Spanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,674 2.9

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 5,801 1.0Other Indo-European languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,851 2.2

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 3,667 0.6Asian and Pacific Island languages . . . . . . . . . . . 22,186 3.8

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 11,659 2.0

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626,932 100.0Total ancestries reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683,232 109.0

Arab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836 0.1Czech1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,701 0.6Danish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,743 0.9Dutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,866 1.9English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,360 9.6French (except Basque)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,221 3.2French Canadian1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,684 1.1German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104,147 16.6Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,576 0.3Hungarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,238 0.4Irish1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,906 10.8Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,944 2.9Lithuanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962 0.2Norwegian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,439 4.2Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,268 2.1Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,128 0.3Russian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,517 1.2Scotch-Irish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,811 1.9Scottish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,763 2.5Slovak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827 0.1Subsaharan African. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,742 0.3Swedish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,685 2.7Swiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,534 0.4Ukrainian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,580 0.3United States or American. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,646 5.7Welsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,382 0.9West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) . . . . . . . . 1,217 0.2Other ancestries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236,509 37.7

-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.


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Table DP-3. Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics: 2000Geographic area: Alaska[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]


EMPLOYMENT STATUSPopulation 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 458,054 100.0

In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326,596 71.3Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309,485 67.6

Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281,532 61.5Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,953 6.1

Percent of civilian labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.0 (X)Armed Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,111 3.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,458 28.7

Females 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220,694 100.0In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145,422 65.9

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,890 64.7Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,498 60.0

Own children under 6 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,369 100.0All parents in family in labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,463 59.7

COMMUTING TO WORKWorkers 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290,597 100.0

Car, truck, or van - - drove alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193,165 66.5Car, truck, or van - - carpooled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,012 15.5Public transportation (including taxicab) . . . . . . . . . 5,236 1.8Walked. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,298 7.3Other means. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,908 4.8Worked at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,978 4.1Mean travel time to work (minutes)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.6 (X)

Employed civilian population16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281,532 100.0

OCCUPATIONManagement, professional, and relatedoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,839 34.4

Service occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,940 15.6Sales and office occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,550 26.1Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . 4,168 1.5Construction, extraction, and maintenanceoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,702 11.6

Production, transportation, and material movingoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,333 10.8

INDUSTRYAgriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting,and mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,774 4.9

Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,534 7.3Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,220 3.3Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,215 2.6Retail trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,638 11.6Transportation and warehousing, and utilities . . . . 25,043 8.9Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,652 2.7Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental andleasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,934 4.6

Professional, scientific, management, adminis-trative, and waste management services . . . . . . . 21,322 7.6

Educational, health and social services . . . . . . . . . 61,165 21.7Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodationand food services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,099 8.6

Other services (except public administration) . . . . 15,866 5.6Public administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,070 10.7

CLASS OF WORKERPrivate wage and salary workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182,840 64.9Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,330 26.8Self-employed workers in own not incorporatedbusiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,520 8.0

Unpaid family workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842 0.3


INCOME IN 1999Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221,804 100.0

Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,458 5.6$10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,995 5.0$15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,917 10.3$25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,025 11.3$35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,519 16.0$50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,912 22.1$75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,371 13.7$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,381 11.4$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,078 2.7$200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,148 1.9Median household income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,571 (X)

With earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198,600 89.5Mean earnings (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,171 (X)

With Social Security income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,282 13.7Mean Social Security income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . 10,273 (X)

With Supplemental Security Income . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,854 3.1Mean Supplemental Security Income(dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,259 (X)

With public assistance income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,230 8.7Mean public assistance income (dollars)1 . . . . . 4,436 (X)

With retirement income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,555 14.7Mean retirement income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,037 (X)

Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,611 100.0Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,664 3.7$10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,097 3.3$15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,452 8.8$25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,330 10.0$35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,197 15.1$50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,299 23.6$75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,825 16.2$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,267 13.8$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,104 3.3$200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,376 2.2Median family income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,036 (X)

Per capita income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,660 (X)Median earnings (dollars):Male full-time, year-round workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,257 (X)Female full-time, year-round workers . . . . . . . . . . . 31,151 (X)

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POVERTY STATUS IN 1999Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,270 6.7


Families with female householder, nohusband present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,686 20.0


Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,602 9.418 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,561 8.3

65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,330 6.8Related children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,792 11.2

Related children 5 to 17 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,298 10.3Unrelated individuals 15 years and over. . . . . . . . . 20,113 18.3

-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.See text.


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Table DP-4. Profile of Selected Housing Characteristics: 2000Geographic area: Alaska



Total housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260,978 100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,688 58.51-unit, attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,340 7.02 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,279 5.53 or 4 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,198 7.45 to 9 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,971 5.710 to 19 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,894 3.020 or more units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,078 5.4Mobile home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,814 6.8Boat, RV, van, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,716 0.7

YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,793 2.61995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,267 8.51990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,979 6.91980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,090 29.91970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,095 28.81960 to 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,169 11.61940 to 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,001 9.61939 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,584 2.1

ROOMS1 room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,512 6.72 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,171 9.33 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,375 12.44 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,240 17.75 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,972 18.46 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,904 13.47 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,785 9.58 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,552 6.39 or more rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,467 6.3Median (rooms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.7 (X)

Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221,600 100.0YEAR HOUSEHOLDER MOVED INTO UNIT1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,280 25.81995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,632 32.81990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,508 16.01980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,713 16.11970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,899 6.71969 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,568 2.5

VEHICLES AVAILABLENone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,075 10.91 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,127 33.92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,588 38.23 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,810 17.1

HOUSE HEATING FUELUtility gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,703 45.9Bottled, tank, or LP gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,873 2.2Electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,697 10.2Fuel oil, kerosene, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,429 35.8Coal or coke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,090 0.5Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,202 3.7Solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 -Other fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,416 1.1No fuel used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,146 0.5

SELECTED CHARACTERISTICSLacking complete plumbing facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,003 6.3Lacking complete kitchen facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,496 5.6No telephone service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,684 3.0


OCCUPANTS PER ROOMOccupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221,600 100.0

1.00 or less. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202,610 91.41.01 to 1.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,080 4.51.51 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,910 4.0

Specified owner-occupied units . . . . . . . . 105,620 100.0VALUELess than $50,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,589 6.2$50,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,155 16.2$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,450 31.7$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,661 26.2$200,000 to $299,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,453 14.6$300,000 to $499,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,343 4.1$500,000 to $999,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774 0.7$1,000,000 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 0.2Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144,200 (X)

MORTGAGE STATUS AND SELECTEDMONTHLY OWNER COSTS

With a mortgage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,582 74.4Less than $300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 0.2$300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,913 1.8$500 to $699 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,413 4.2$700 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,118 12.4$1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,931 29.3$1,500 to $1,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,279 18.3$2,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,714 8.3Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,315 (X)

Not mortgaged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,038 25.6Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 (X)

SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTSAS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDINCOME IN 1999

Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,414 32.615.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,226 18.220.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,936 15.125.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,224 10.630.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,192 6.835.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,116 16.2Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512 0.5

Specified renter-occupied units . . . . . . . . 82,344 100.0GROSS RENTLess than $200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,155 1.4$200 to $299 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,116 2.6$300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,627 11.7$500 to $749 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,096 31.7$750 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,437 22.4$1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,296 13.7$1,500 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,590 3.1No cash rent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,027 13.4Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 (X)

GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OFHOUSEHOLD INCOME IN 1999

Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,268 17.315.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,321 13.720.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,141 12.325.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,082 9.830.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,095 7.435.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,903 25.4Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,534 14.0

-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.


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Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics for the United States: 2000

[For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, and definitions, see http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decenial.html]

Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent

Total population......................................... 281,421,906 100.0 HISPANIC OR LATINO AND RACE SEX AND AGE Total population..................................................... 281,421,906 100.0Male....................................................................... 138,053,563 49.1 Hispanic or Latino (of any race)......................................... 35,305,818 12.5Female.................................................................. 143,368,343 50.9 Mexican........................................................................ 20,640,711 7.3

Puerto Rican................................................................. 3,406,178 1.2Under 5 years........................................................ 19,175,798 6.8 Cuban........................................................................... 1,241,685 0.45 to 9 years............................................................ 20,549,505 7.3 Other Hispanic or Latino............................................... 10,017,244 3.610 to 14 years........................................................ 20,528,072 7.3 Not Hispanic or Latino....................................................... 246,116,088 87.515 to 19 years........................................................ 20,219,890 7.2 White alone................................................................... 194,552,774 69.120 to 24 years........................................................ 18,964,001 6.725 to 34 years........................................................ 39,891,724 14.2 RELATIONSHIP35 to 44 years........................................................ 45,148,527 16.0 Total population..........……………………………… 281,421,906 100.045 to 54 years........................................................ 37,677,952 13.4 In households.................................................................... 273,643,273 97.255 to 59 years........................................................ 13,469,237 4.8 Householder................................................................. 105,480,101 37.560 to 64 years........................................................ 10,805,447 3.8 Spouse.......................................................................... 54,493,232 19.465 to 74 years........................................................ 18,390,986 6.5 Child.............................................................................. 83,393,392 29.675 to 84 years........................................................ 12,361,180 4.4 Own child under 18 years......................................... 64,494,637 22.985 years and over.................................................. 4,239,587 1.5 Other relatives.............................................................. 15,684,318 5.6

Under 18 years......................................................... 6,042,435 2.1Median age (years)............................................... 35.3 (X) Nonrelatives.................................................................. 14,592,230 5.2

Unmarried partner..................................................... 5,475,768 1.918 years and over.................................................. 209,128,094 74.3 In group quarters............................................................... 7,778,633 2.8 Male................................................................... 100,994,367 35.9 Institutionalized population........................................... 4,059,039 1.4 Female.............................................................. 108,133,727 38.4 Noninstitutionalized population..................................... 3,719,594 1.321 years and over.................................................. 196,899,193 70.062 years and over.................................................. 41,256,029 14.7 HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE65 years and over.................................................. 34,991,753 12.4 Total households................................................... 105,480,101 100.0 Male................................................................... 14,409,625 5.1 Family households (families)............................................. 71,787,347 68.1 Female.............................................................. 20,582,128 7.3 With own children under 18 years........................... 34,588,368 32.8

Married-couple family................................................... 54,493,232 51.7RACE With own children under 18 years........................... 24,835,505 23.5One race................................................................ 274,595,678 97.6 Female householder, no husband present .................. 12,900,103 12.2 White................................................................ 211,460,626 75.1 With own children under 18 years........................... 7,561,874 7.2 Black or African American................................ 34,658,190 12.3 Nonfamily households....................................................... 33,692,754 31.9 American Indian and Alaska Native................. 2,475,956 0.9 Householder living alone.............................................. 27,230,075 25.8 Asian................................................................ 10,242,998 3.6 Householder 65 years and over............................... 9,722,857 9.2 Asian Indian.................................................. 1,678,765 0.6 Chinese........................................................ 2,432,585 0.9 Households with individuals under 18 years...................... 38,022,115 36.0 Filipino.......................................................... 1,850,314 0.7 Households with individuals 65 years and over................. 24,672,708 23.4 Japanese...................................................... 796,700 0.3 Korean.......................................................... 1,076,872 0.4 Average household size.................................................... 2.59 (X) Vietnamese.................................................. 1,122,528 0.4 Average family size............................................................ 3.14 (X) Other Asian 1................................................ 1,285,234 0.5 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander..... 398,835 0.1 HOUSING OCCUPANCY Native Hawaiian........................................... 140,652 - Total housing units................................................ 115,904,641 100.0 Guamanian or Chamorro.............................. 58,240 - Occupied housing units..................................................... 105,480,101 91.0 Samoan........................................................ 91,029 - Vacant housing units......................................................... 10,424,540 9.0 Other Pacific Islander 2................................ 108,914 - For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use.............. 3,578,718 3.1 Some other race............................................... 15,359,073 5.5Two or more races................................................ 6,826,228 2.4 Homeowner vacancy rate (percent)................................... 1.7 (X)

Rental vacancy rate (percent)............................................ 6.8 (X)Race alone or in combination with one or more other races: 3 HOUSING TENUREWhite..................................................................... 216,930,975 77.1 Occupied housing units........................................ 105,480,101 100.0Black or African American..................................... 36,419,434 12.9 Owner-occupied housing units.......................................... 69,815,753 66.2American Indian and Alaska Native...................... 4,119,301 1.5 Renter-occupied housing units.......................................... 35,664,348 33.8Asian..................................................................... 11,898,828 4.2Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander.......... 874,414 0.3 Average household size of owner-occupied units............. 2.69 (X)Some other race.................................................... 18,521,486 6.6 Average household size of renter-occupied units.............. 2.40 (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 following 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.


Table DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000 Geographic area: United States



SCHOOL ENROLLMENT NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH Population 3 years and over Total population....................................... 281,421,906 100.0 enrolled in school............................................. 76,632,927 100.0 Native................................................................... 250,314,017 88.9Nursery school, preschool............................................... 4,957,582 6.5 Born in United States...................................... 246,786,466 87.7Kindergarten............................................................. 4,157,491 5.4 State of residence....................................... 168,729,388 60.0Elementary school (grades 1-8)...................................... 33,653,641 43.9 Different state............................................. 78,057,078 27.7High school (grades 9-12)............................................... 16,380,951 21.4 Born outside United States ............................ 3,527,551 1.3College or graduate school ............................................. 17,483,262 22.8 Foreign born........................................................ 31,107,889 11.1

Entered 1990 to March 2000...................... 13,178,276 4.7EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT Naturalized citizen.......................................... 12,542,626 4.5 Population 25 years and over............................. 182,211,639 100.0 Not a citizen.................................................... 18,565,263 6.6Less than 9th grade......................................................... 13,755,477 7.5 9th to 12th grade, no diploma.......................................... 21,960,148 12.1 REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN High school graduate (includes equivalency).................. 52,168,981 28.6 Total (excluding born at sea) ............... 31,107,573 100.0Some college, no degree................................................. 38,351,595 21.0 Europe................................................................. 4,915,557 15.8Associate degree............................................................. 11,512,833 6.3 Asia...................................................................... 8,226,254 26.4Bachelor's degree............................................................ 28,317,792 15.5 Africa.................................................................... 881,300 2.8Graduate or professional degree..................................... 16,144,813 8.9 Oceania............................................................... 168,046 0.5

Latin America....................................................... 16,086,974 51.7Percent high school graduate or higher........................... 80.4 (X) Northern America................................................. 829,442 2.7Percent bachelor's degree or higher................................ 24.4 (X)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME MARITAL STATUS Population 5 years and over................... 262,375,152 100.0 Population 15 years and over............................. 221,148,671 100.0 English only......................................................... 215,423,557 82.1Never married.................................................................. 59,913,370 27.1 Language other than English............................... 46,951,595 17.9Now married, except separated....................................... 120,231,273 54.4 Speak English less than "very well"............ 21,320,407 8.1Separated....................................................................... 4,769,220 2.2 Spanish........................................................... 28,101,052 10.7Widowed........................................................................ 14,674,500 6.6 Speak English less than "very well"............ 13,751,256 5.2 Female……………………………………………………… 11,975,325 5.4 Other Indo-European languages.................... 10,017,989 3.8Divorced.......................................................................... 21,560,308 9.7 Speak English less than "very well"............ 3,390,301 1.3 Female……………………………………………………… 12,305,294 5.6 Asian and Pacific Island languages................ 6,960,065 2.7

Speak English less than "very well"............ 3,590,024 1.4GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS Grandparent living in household with one or ANCESTRY (single or multiple) more own grandchildren under 18 years....... 5,771,671 100.0 Total population....................................... 281,421,906 100.0Grandparent responsible for grandchildren……………… 2,426,730 42.0 Total ancestries reported……………………287,304,886 102.1

Arab..................................................................... 1,202,871 0.4VETERAN STATUS Czech 1 ............................................................... 1,703,930 0.6 Civilian population 18 years and over............... 208,130,352 100.0 Danish.................................................................. 1,430,897 0.5Civilian veterans............................................................. 26,403,703 12.7 Dutch................................................................... 4,542,494 1.6

English................................................................. 24,515,138 8.7DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN French (except Basque) 1 ................................... 8,325,509 3.0 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION French Canadian 1 .............................................. 2,435,098 0.9 Population 5 to 20 years..................................... 64,689,357 100.0 German................................................................ 42,885,162 15.2With a disability................................................................ 5,214,334 8.1 Greek................................................................... 1,153,307 0.4

Hungarian............................................................ 1,398,724 0.5 Population 21 to 64 years................................... 159,131,544 100.0 Irish 1 ................................................................... 30,594,130 10.9With a disability................................................................ 30,553,796 19.2 Italian................................................................... 15,723,555 5.6 Percent employed........................................................ 56.6 (X) Lithuanian............................................................ 659,992 0.2No disability..................................................................... 128,577,748 80.8 Norwegian............................................................ 4,477,725 1.6 Percent employed........................................................ 77.2 (X) Polish................................................................... 8,977,444 3.2

Portuguese.......................................................... 1,177,112 0.4 Population 65 years and over............................. 33,346,626 100.0 Russian................................................................ 2,652,214 0.9With a disability................................................................ 13,978,118 41.9 Scotch-Irish.......................................................... 4,319,232 1.5

Scottish................................................................ 4,890,581 1.7RESIDENCE IN 1995 Slovak.................................................................. 797,764 0.3 Population 5 years and over............................... 262,375,152 100.0 Subsaharan African............................................. 1,781,877 0.6Same house in 1995........................................................ 142,027,478 54.1 Swedish............................................................... 3,998,310 1.4Different house in the U.S. in 1995.................................. 112,851,828 43.0 Swiss................................................................... 911,502 0.3 Same county............................................................. 65,435,013 24.9 Ukrainian.............................................................. 892,922 0.3 Different county........................................................... 47,416,815 18.1 United States or American................................... 20,625,093 7.3 Same state............................................................. 25,327,355 9.7 Welsh................................................................... 1,753,794 0.6 Different state........................................................... 22,089,460 8.4 West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups).………. 1,869,504 0.7Elsewhere in 1995........................................................... 7,495,846 2.9 Other ancestries…………………………………… 91,609,005 32.6

- Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. 1 The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000.

Table DP-3. Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics: 2000 Geographic area: United States

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


EMPLOYMENT STATUS INCOME IN 1999 Population 16 years and over.............................. 217,168,077 100.0 Households................................................... 105,539,122 100.0In labor force................................................................. 138,820,935 63.9 Less than $10,000.................................................. 10,067,027 9.5 Civilian labor force...................................................... 137,668,798 63.4 $10,000 to $14,999................................................ 6,657,228 6.3 Employed................................................................ 129,721,512 59.7 $15,000 to $24,999................................................ 13,536,965 12.8 Unemployed............................................................ 7,947,286 3.7 $25,000 to $34,999................................................ 13,519,242 12.8 Percent of civilian labor force............................. 5.8 (X) $35,000 to $49,999................................................ 17,446,272 16.5 Armed Forces............................................................ 1,152,137 0.5 $50,000 to $74,999................................................ 20,540,604 19.5Not in labor force........................................................... 78,347,142 36.1 $75,000 to $99,999................................................ 10,799,245 10.2

$100,000 to $149,999............................................ 8,147,826 7.7 Females 16 years and over.................................. 112,185,795 100.0 $150,000 to $199,999 ........................................... 2,322,038 2.2In labor force................................................................. 64,547,732 57.5 $200,000 or more................................................... 2,502,675 2.4 Civilian labor force...................................................... 64,383,493 57.4 Median household income (dollars)....................... 41,994 (X) Employed................................................................ 60,630,069 54.0

With earnings......................................................... 84,962,743 80.5 Own children under 6 years................................ 21,833,613 100.0 Mean earnings (dollars)1..................................... 56,604 (X)All parents in family in labor force................................. 12,787,501 58.6 With Social Security income................................... 27,084,417 25.7

Mean Social Security income (dollars)1.............. 11,320 (X)COMMUTING TO WORK With Supplemental Security Income...................... 4,615,885 4.4 Workers 16 years and over.................................. 128,279,228 100.0 Mean Supplemental Security Income (dollars)1.. 6,320 (X)Car, truck, or van - - drove alone................................... 97,102,050 75.7 With public assistance income............................... 3,629,732 3.4Car, truck, or van - - carpooled...................................... 15,634,051 12.2 Mean public assistance income (dollars)1.......... 3,032 (X)Public transportation (including taxicab)........................ 6,067,703 4.7 With retirement income.......................................... 17,659,058 16.7Walked.......................................................................... 3,758,982 2.9 Mean retirement income (dollars)1...................... 17,376 (X)Other means.................................................................. 1,532,219 1.2 Worked at home............................................................ 4,184,223 3.3 Families......................................................... 72,261,780 100.0Mean travel time to work (minutes)1.............................. 25.5 (X) Less than $10,000.................................................. 4,155,386 5.8

$10,000 to $14,999................................................ 3,115,586 4.3 Employed civilian population $15,000 to $24,999................................................ 7,757,397 10.7 16 years and over.............................................. 129,721,512 100.0 $25,000 to $34,999................................................ 8,684,429 12.0OCCUPATION $35,000 to $49,999................................................ 12,377,108 17.1Management, professional, and related occupations.... 43,646,731 33.6 $50,000 to $74,999................................................ 16,130,100 22.3Service occupations...................................................... 19,276,947 14.9 $75,000 to $99,999................................................ 9,009,327 12.5Sales and office occupations......................................... 34,621,390 26.7 $100,000 to $149,999............................................ 6,936,210 9.6Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations……………… 951,810 0.7 $150,000 to $199,999 ........................................... 1,983,673 2.7Construction, extraction, and maintenance $200,000 or more................................................... 2,112,564 2.9 occupations……………………………………………… 12,256,138 9.4 Median family income (dollars)............................... 50,046 (X)Production, transportation, and material moving occupations................................................................. 18,968,496 14.6 Per capita income (dollars)1................................... 21,587 (X)

Median earnings (dollars): INDUSTRY Male full-time, year-round workers......................... 37,057 (X)Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining… 2,426,053 1.9 Female full-time, year-round workers..................... 27,194 (X)Construction.................................................................. 8,801,507 6.8Manufacturing................................................................ 18,286,005 14.1 Number PercentWholesale trade............................................................ 4,666,757 3.6 below belowRetail trade.................................................................... 15,221,716 11.7 poverty povertyTransportation and warehousing, and utilities………… 6,740,102 5.2 Subject level levelInformation………………………………………………… 3,996,564 3.1Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental and POVERTY STATUS IN 1999 leasing……………………………………………………… 8,934,972 6.9 Families......................................................... 6,620,945 9.2Professional, scientific, management, administrative, With related children under 18 years...................... 5,155,866 13.6 and waste management services................................ 12,061,865 9.3 With related children under 5 years.................... 2,562,263 17.0Educational, health and social services........................ 25,843,029 19.9 Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and Families with female householder, no food services……………………………………………… 10,210,295 7.9 husband present........................................ 3,315,916 26.5Other services (except public administration)…………… 6,320,632 4.9 With related children under 18 years...................... 2,940,459 34.3Public administration……………………………………… 6,212,015 4.8 With related children under 5 years.................... 1,401,493 46.4

CLASS OF WORKER Individuals..................................................... 33,899,812 12.4Private wage and salary workers.................................. 101,794,361 78.5 18 years and over................................................... 22,152,954 10.9Government workers..................................................... 18,923,353 14.6 65 years and over............................................... 3,287,774 9.9Self-employed workers in own not incorporated Related children under 18 years............................ 11,386,031 16.1 business...................................................................... 8,603,761 6.6 Related children 5 to 17 years............................ 7,974,006 15.4Unpaid family workers……………………………………… 400,037 0.3 Unrelated individuals 15 years and over…………… 10,721,935 22.7

- Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. 1 If 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. See text.


Table DP-4. Profile of Selected Housing Characteristics: 2000 Geographic area: United States



Total housing units................................... 115,904,641 100.0 OCCUPANTS PER ROOM UNITS IN STRUCTURE Occupied housing units............................ 105,480,101 100.01-unit, detached................................................... 69,865,957 60.3 1.00 or less.......................................................... 99,406,609 94.21-unit, attached.................................................... 6,447,453 5.6 1.01 to 1.50.......................................................... 3,198,596 3.02 units..........................................................……… 4,995,350 4.3 1.51 or more........................................................ 2,874,896 2.73 or 4 units........................................................... 5,494,280 4.7 5 to 9 units........................................................... 5,414,988 4.7 Specified owner-occupied units.............. 55,212,108 100.010 to 19 units....................................................... 4,636,717 4.0 VALUE 20 or more units................................................... 10,008,058 8.6 Less than $50,000............................................... 5,457,817 9.9Mobile home........................................................ 8,779,228 7.6 $50,000 to $99,999.............................................. 16,778,971 30.4Boat, RV, van, etc................................................ 262,610 0.2 $100,000 to $149,999.......................................... 13,110,384 23.7

$150,000 to $199,999.......................................... 8,075,904 14.6YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT $200,000 to $299,999.......................................... 6,583,049 11.91999 to March 2000............................................. 2,755,075 2.4 $300,000 to $499,999.......................................... 3,584,108 6.51995 to 1998........................................................ 8,478,975 7.3 $500,000 to $999,999.......................................... 1,308,116 2.41990 to 1994........................................................ 8,467,008 7.3 $1,000,000 or more............................................. 313,759 0.61980 to 1989........................................................ 18,326,847 15.8 Median (dollars)................................................... 119,600 (X)1970 to 1979........................................................ 21,438,863 18.5 1960 to 1969........................................................ 15,911,903 13.7 MORTGAGE STATUS AND SELECTED 1940 to 1959........................................................ 23,145,917 20.0 MONTHLY OWNER COSTS 1939 or earlier...................................................... 17,380,053 15.0 With a mortgage.................................................. 38,663,887 70.0

Less than $300............................................... 255,243 0.5ROOMS $300 to $499................................................... 2,149,992 3.91 room.................................................................. 2,551,061 2.2 $500 to $699................................................... 4,943,283 9.02 rooms................................................................ 5,578,182 4.8 $700 to $999................................................... 9,612,512 17.43 rooms................................................................ 11,405,588 9.8 $1,000 to $1,499............................................. 11,679,988 21.24 rooms................................................................ 18,514,383 16.0 $1,500 to $1,999............................................. 5,555,203 10.15 rooms................................................................ 24,214,071 20.9 $2,000 or more............................................... 4,467,666 8.16 rooms................................................................ 21,385,794 18.5 Median (dollars).............................................. 1,088 (X)7 rooms................................................................ 13,981,917 12.1 Not mortgaged..................................................... 16,548,221 30.08 rooms................................................................ 9,343,740 8.1 Median (dollars).............................................. 295 (X)9 or more rooms.................................................. 8,929,905 7.7 Median (rooms).................................................... 5.3 (X) SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTS

AS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLD Occupied housing units........................... 105,480,101 100.0 INCOME IN 1999 YEAR HOUSEHOLDER MOVED INTO UNIT Less than 15.0 percent........................................ 20,165,963 36.51999 to March 2000............................................. 21,041,090 19.9 15.0 to 19.9 percent............................................. 9,661,469 17.51995 to 1998........................................................ 30,479,848 28.9 20.0 to 24.9 percent............................................. 7,688,019 13.91990 to 1994........................................................ 16,948,257 16.1 25.0 to 29.9 percent............................................. 5,210,523 9.41980 to 1989........................................................ 16,429,173 15.6 30.0 to 34.9 percent............................................. 3,325,083 6.01970 to 1979........................................................ 10,399,015 9.9 35.0 percent or more........................................... 8,719,648 15.81969 or earlier...................................................... 10,182,718 9.7 Not computed...................................................... 441,403 0.8

VEHICLES AVAILABLE Specified renter-occupied units............... 35,199,502 100.0None.................................................................... 10,861,067 10.3 GROSS RENT 1........................................................................... 36,123,613 34.2 Less than $200.................................................... 1,844,181 5.22........................................................................... 40,461,920 38.4 $200 to $299........................................................ 1,818,764 5.23 or more............................................................. 18,033,501 17.1 $300 to $499........................................................ 7,739,515 22.0

$500 to $749........................................................ 11,860,298 33.7HOUSE HEATING FUEL $750 to $999........................................................ 6,045,173 17.2Utility gas............................................................. 54,027,880 51.2 $1,000 to $1,499.................................................. 3,054,099 8.7Bottled, tank, or LP gas....................................... 6,880,185 6.5 $1,500 or more.................................................... 1,024,296 2.9Electricity............................................................. 32,010,401 30.3 No cash rent........................................................ 1,813,176 5.2Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.......................................... 9,457,850 9.0 Median (dollars)................................................... 602 (X)Coal or coke......................................................... 142,876 0.1 Wood................................................................... 1,769,781 1.7 GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OF Solar energy........................................................ 47,069 - HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN 1999 Other fuel............................................................. 412,553 0.4 Less than 15.0 percent........................................ 6,370,263 18.1No fuel used......................................................... 731,506 0.7 15.0 to 19.9 percent............................................. 5,037,981 14.3

20.0 to 24.9 percent............................................. 4,498,604 12.8SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS 25.0 to 29.9 percent............................................. 3,666,233 10.4Lacking complete plumbing facilities................... 670,986 0.6 30.0 to 34.9 percent............................................. 2,585,327 7.3Lacking complete kitchen facilities....................... 715,535 0.7 35.0 percent or more........................................... 10,383,959 29.5No telephone service........................................... 2,570,705 2.4 Not computed...................................................... 2,657,135 7.5

- Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.


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