United States - General Demographic Characteristics: 2003

United States

General Demographic Characteristics: 2003

Data Set: 2003 American Community Survey Summary Tables
Survey: American Community Survey

Demographic - Sex and Age, Race, Relationship, Household by Type
Social - Education, Marital Status, Fertility, Grandparents...
Economic - Income, Employment, Occupation, Commuting to Work...
Housing - Occupancy and Structure, Housing Value and Costs, Utilities...

An entry of "X" indicates that, due to an error, data have been removed and are being revised. When revisions are complete the data will again be available.

NOTE. Data are limited to the household population and exclude the population living in institutions, college dormitories, and other group quarters. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see Survey Methodology.

General Demographic Characteristics: 2003	Estimate	Lower Bound	Upper Bound

Total population	282,909,885	*****	*****
SEX AND AGE
Male	138,396,524	138,345,711	138,447,337
Female	144,513,361	144,462,548	144,564,174
Under 5 years	19,679,781	19,653,996	19,705,566
5 to 9 years	19,741,730	19,636,901	19,846,559
10 to 14 years	21,144,669	21,038,575	21,250,763
15 to 19 years	18,856,479	18,810,858	18,902,100
20 to 24 years	19,092,098	19,024,525	19,159,671
25 to 34 years	38,777,573	38,708,538	38,846,608
35 to 44 years	43,724,771	43,664,619	43,784,923
45 to 54 years	40,391,039	40,332,181	40,449,897
55 to 59 years	15,484,024	15,399,480	15,568,568
60 to 64 years	12,121,549	12,036,087	12,207,011
65 to 74 years	18,050,132	18,020,846	18,079,418
75 to 84 years	12,317,084	12,262,609	12,371,559
85 years and over	3,528,956	3,480,688	3,577,224

Median age (years)	36.0	35.8	36.2

18 years and over	210,275,463	210,248,306	210,302,620
21 years and over	199,698,589	199,625,188	199,771,990
62 years and over	40,626,693	40,553,362	40,700,024
65 years and over	33,896,172	33,867,171	33,925,173
Male	14,380,551	14,359,090	14,402,012
Female	19,515,621	19,494,235	19,537,007

RACE
One race	277,555,200	277,434,226	277,676,174
White	215,451,392	215,211,807	215,690,977
Black or African American	34,313,529	34,219,825	34,407,233
American Indian and Alaska Native	2,173,834	2,120,420	2,227,248
Asian	11,743,093	11,690,751	11,795,435
Asian Indian	X	X	X
Chinese (except Taiwanese)	X	X	X
Filipino	X	X	X
Japanese	X	X	X
Korean	X	X	X
Vietnamese	X	X	X
Other Asian	X	X	X
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	404,619	381,822	427,416
Native Hawaiian	X	X	X
Guamanian or Chamorro	X	X	X
Samoan	X	X	X
Other Pacific Islander	X	X	X
Some other race	13,468,733	13,232,139	13,705,327
Two or more races	5,354,685	5,233,711	5,475,659
Two races including Some other race	1,137,995	1,091,584	1,184,406
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	4,216,690	4,112,180	4,321,200

Race alone or in combination with one or more other races:
White	220,041,236	219,794,732	220,287,740
Black or African American	36,186,830	36,107,034	36,266,626
American Indian and Alaska Native	3,895,038	3,831,756	3,958,320
Asian	13,103,497	13,064,676	13,142,318
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	748,933	717,238	780,628
Some other race	14,689,042	14,445,486	14,932,598

HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Total population	282,909,885	*****	*****
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	39,194,837	39,109,582	39,280,092
Mexican	25,287,619	25,111,572	25,463,666
Puerto Rican	3,717,941	3,644,483	3,791,399
Cuban	1,363,769	1,317,204	1,410,334
Other Hispanic or Latino	8,825,508	8,671,007	8,980,009
Not Hispanic or Latino	243,715,048	243,629,793	243,800,303
White alone	191,768,647	191,691,174	191,846,120
Black or African American alone	33,677,190	33,593,641	33,760,739
American Indian or Alaska Native alone	1,863,268	1,821,381	1,905,155
Asian alone	11,604,208	11,552,827	11,655,589
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	360,462	340,887	380,037
Some other race alone	572,237	531,388	613,086
Two or more races:	3,869,036	3,774,422	3,963,650
Two races including Some other race	192,055	173,317	210,793
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	3,676,981	3,583,805	3,770,157

RELATIONSHIP
Household population	282,909,885	*****	*****
Householder	111,899,369	111,724,520	112,074,218
Spouse	56,506,554	56,334,633	56,678,475
Child	84,618,892	84,415,427	84,822,357
Other relatives	16,299,904	16,118,075	16,481,733
Nonrelatives	13,585,166	13,411,321	13,759,011
Unmarried partner	5,753,955	5,677,652	5,830,258

HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE
Total households	108,419,506	108,167,885	108,671,127
Family households (families)	73,057,960	72,802,717	73,313,203
With own children under 18 years	34,878,416	34,741,908	35,014,924
Married-couple families	54,688,008	54,414,206	54,961,810
With own children under 18 years	24,272,929	24,119,388	24,426,470
Female householder, no husband present	13,632,172	13,524,568	13,739,776
With own children under 18 years	8,294,092	8,218,038	8,370,146
Nonfamily households	35,361,546	35,189,205	35,533,887
Householder living alone	29,090,016	28,926,660	29,253,372
65 years and over	9,852,761	9,775,679	9,929,843

Households with one or more people under 18 years	38,429,174	38,281,921	38,576,427
Households with one or more people 65 years and over	24,967,316	24,858,983	25,075,649

Average household size	2.61	2.59	2.63
Average family size	3.19	3.18	3.20

HOUSING OCCUPANCY
Total housing units	120,879,390	*****	*****
Occupied housing units	108,419,506	108,167,885	108,671,127
Vacant housing units	12,459,884	12,208,263	12,711,505

Homeowner vacancy rate (percent)	1.7	1.6	1.7
Rental vacancy rate (percent)	8.0	7.9	8.2

HOUSING TENURE
Occupied housing units	108,419,506	108,167,885	108,671,127
Owner-occupied	72,418,662	72,044,742	72,792,582
Renter-occupied	36,000,844	35,748,823	36,252,865

Average household size of owner-occupied unit	2.72	2.70	2.74
Average household size of renter-occupied unit	2.39	2.38	2.40

General Demographic Characteristics: 2003	Estimate	Lower Bound	Upper Bound

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2003 American Community Survey

The table above shows the margin of error, represented by the lower and upper bounds of the 90-percent confidence interval. The confidence interval represents the degree of uncertainty for an estimate and can be interpreted roughly as providing 90 percent certainty that the true number falls between the upper and lower bounds. The smaller the confidence interval the more precise the estimate.

Notes:
� The number of householders does not necessarily equal the number of households because of differences in the weighting schemes for the population and occupied housing units.
� For more information on understanding race and Hispanic origin data, please see the Census 2000 Brief entitled, Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin, issued March 2001. (pdf format)

Explanation of Symbols:
1. An '*' entry in the lower and upper bound columns indicates that too few sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the lower and upper bounds. A statistical test is not appropriate.
2. An '**' entry in the lower and upper bound columns indicates that no sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the lower and upper bounds. A statistical test is not appropriate.
3. An '-' entry in the estimate column indicates that no sample observations were available to compute an estimate.
4. An '-' following a median estimate means the median falls in the lowest interval of an open-ended distribution.
5. An '+' following a median estimate means the median falls in the upper interval of an open-ended distribution.
6. An '***' entry in the lower and upper bound columns indicates that the median falls in the lowest interval or upper interval of an open-ended distribution. A statistical test is not appropriate.
7. An '*****' entry in the lower and upper bound columns indicates that the estimate is controlled. A statistical test is not appropriate.
8. An 'N' entry in the estimate, lower bound, and upper bound columns indicates that data for this geographic area cannot be displayed because the number of sample cases is too small.

The letters PDF or symbol Adobe PDF

indicate a document is in the Portable Document Format (PDF). To view the file you will need the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader, which is available for free from the Adobe web site.

2003 Data Profiles:

View this table...

View this table...