United States - General Demographic Characteristics: 2004

United States

General Demographic Characteristics: 2004

Data Set: 2004 American Community Survey
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...

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: 2004	Estimate	Lower Bound	Upper Bound
Total population	285,691,501	*****	*****
SEX AND AGE
Male	139,782,818	139,718,900	139,846,736
Female	145,908,683	145,844,765	145,972,601
Under 5 years	20,008,152	19,978,334	20,037,970
5 to 9 years	19,659,110	19,553,918	19,764,302
10 to 14 years	21,084,611	20,982,837	21,186,385
15 to 19 years	19,077,645	19,020,003	19,135,287
20 to 24 years	19,327,806	19,258,661	19,396,951
25 to 34 years	38,692,519	38,628,148	38,756,890
35 to 44 years	43,571,574	43,503,975	43,639,173
45 to 54 years	41,219,069	41,158,009	41,280,129
55 to 59 years	16,227,169	16,144,211	16,310,127
60 to 64 years	12,618,545	12,533,373	12,703,717
65 to 74 years	18,163,750	18,127,521	18,199,979
75 to 84 years	12,415,691	12,362,767	12,468,615
85 years and over	3,625,860	3,577,679	3,674,041

Median age (years)	36.2	36.0	36.4

18 years and over	212,767,197	212,736,338	212,798,056
21 years and over	202,103,066	202,025,863	202,180,269
62 years and over	41,217,820	41,143,325	41,292,315
65 years and over	34,205,301	34,167,815	34,242,787

18 years and over	212,767,197	212,736,338	212,798,056
Male	102,545,454	102,502,017	102,588,891
Female	110,221,743	110,184,901	110,258,585

65 years and over	34,205,301	34,167,815	34,242,787
Male	14,546,816	14,524,417	14,569,215
Female	19,658,485	19,633,402	19,683,568

RACE
One race	280,285,784	280,156,882	280,414,686
Two or more races	5,405,717	5,276,815	5,534,619

Total population	285,691,501	*****	*****
One race	280,285,784	280,156,882	280,414,686
White	216,036,244	215,809,398	216,263,090
Black or African American	34,772,381	34,679,004	34,865,758
American Indian and Alaska Native	2,151,322	2,103,555	2,199,089
Cherokee tribal grouping	331,491	312,103	350,879
Chippewa tribal grouping	92,041	81,792	102,290
Navajo tribal grouping	230,401	204,174	256,628
Sioux tribal grouping	67,666	52,606	82,726
Asian	12,097,281	12,044,920	12,149,642
Asian Indian	2,245,239	2,185,945	2,304,533
Chinese, except Taiwanese	2,829,627	2,754,807	2,904,447
Filipino	2,148,227	2,082,151	2,214,303
Japanese	832,039	796,701	867,377
Korean	1,251,092	1,190,164	1,312,020
Vietnamese	1,267,510	1,207,353	1,327,667
Other Asian	1,523,547	1,459,371	1,587,723
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	403,832	381,192	426,472
Native Hawaiian	154,666	136,758	172,574
Guamanian or Chamorro	68,336	54,223	82,449
Samoan	60,520	47,833	73,207
Other Pacific Islander	120,310	106,585	134,035
Some other race	14,824,724	14,613,740	15,035,708

Two or more races	5,405,717	5,276,815	5,534,619
White and Black or African American	1,141,232	1,088,289	1,194,175
White and American Indian and Alaska Native	1,370,675	1,315,626	1,425,724
White and Asian	881,813	849,722	913,904
Black or African American and American Indian and Alaska Native	204,832	184,055	225,609

Race alone or in combination with one or more other races:
Total population	285,691,501	*****	*****
White	220,707,536	220,492,105	220,922,967
Black or African American	36,597,015	36,528,597	36,665,433
American Indian and Alaska Native	4,006,160	3,940,605	4,071,715
Asian	13,466,479	13,416,350	13,516,608
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	743,314	710,884	775,744
Some other race	15,983,697	15,762,294	16,205,100

HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Total population	285,691,501	*****	*****
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	40,459,196	40,435,119	40,483,273
Mexican	25,894,763	25,734,311	26,055,215
Puerto Rican	3,874,322	3,783,673	3,964,971
Cuban	1,437,828	1,384,398	1,491,258
Other Hispanic or Latino	9,252,283	9,087,861	9,416,705
Not Hispanic or Latino	245,232,305	245,208,228	245,256,382
White alone	192,362,875	192,324,442	192,401,308
Black or African American alone	34,142,554	34,051,425	34,233,683
American Indian or Alaska Native alone	1,852,775	1,814,319	1,891,231
Asian alone	11,955,401	11,904,873	12,005,929
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	364,656	344,717	384,595
Some other race alone	601,187	560,769	641,605
Two or more races:	3,952,857	3,850,573	4,055,141
Two races including Some other race	185,083	169,857	200,309
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	3,767,774	3,668,524	3,867,024

RELATIONSHIP
Household population	285,691,501	*****	*****
Householder	113,448,071	113,288,860	113,607,282
Spouse	57,012,791	56,832,777	57,192,805
Child	85,030,196	84,844,446	85,215,946
Other relatives	16,419,200	16,270,038	16,568,362
Nonrelatives	13,781,243	13,587,354	13,975,132
Unmarried partner	6,035,051	5,950,675	6,119,427

HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE
Total households	109,902,090	109,663,965	110,140,215
Family households (families)	73,885,953	73,625,696	74,146,210
With own children under 18 years	34,976,246	34,820,576	35,131,916
Married-couple families	55,223,574	54,932,885	55,514,263
With own children under 18 years	24,319,914	24,154,782	24,485,046
Female householder, no husband present	13,850,917	13,727,543	13,974,291
With own children under 18 years	8,308,267	8,201,618	8,414,916
Nonfamily households	36,016,137	35,851,637	36,180,637
Householder living alone	29,572,372	29,426,488	29,718,256
65 years and over	9,948,787	9,875,127	10,022,447

Households with one or more people under 18 years	38,657,986	38,499,839	38,816,133
Households with one or more people 65 years and over	25,156,235	25,042,180	25,270,290

Average household size	2.60	2.59	2.61
Average family size	3.18	3.17	3.19

General Demographic Characteristics: 2004	Estimate	Lower Bound	Upper Bound

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2004 American Community Survey

Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a confidence interval. The interval shown here is a 90 percent confidence interval. The stated range can be interpreted roughly as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the lower and upper bounds contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data). The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables.

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 for sampling variability 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.

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