United States - General Demographic Characteristics: 2002

United States

General Demographic Characteristics: 2002

Data Set: 2002 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: 2002	Estimate	Lower Bound	Upper Bound

Total population	280,540,330	*****	*****
SEX AND AGE
Male	137,048,827	136,997,283	137,100,371
Female	143,491,503	143,439,959	143,543,047
Under 5 years	19,526,670	19,493,248	19,560,092
5 to 9 years	19,874,923	19,761,763	19,988,083
10 to 14 years	21,090,854	20,985,292	21,196,416
15 to 19 years	18,750,668	18,690,483	18,810,853
20 to 24 years	18,610,949	18,542,680	18,679,218
25 to 34 years	38,742,608	38,662,134	38,823,082
35 to 44 years	44,266,171	44,195,797	44,336,545
45 to 54 years	39,733,607	39,674,763	39,792,451
55 to 59 years	14,865,650	14,779,761	14,951,539
60 to 64 years	11,488,377	11,408,840	11,567,914
65 to 74 years	17,961,629	17,923,661	17,999,597
75 to 84 years	12,189,823	12,128,940	12,250,706
85 years and over	3,438,401	3,385,822	3,490,980

Median age (years)	35.9	35.7	36.1

18 years and over	208,079,182	208,046,893	208,111,471
21 years and over	197,703,139	197,629,255	197,777,023
62 years and over	40,143,838	40,065,191	40,222,485
65 years and over	33,589,853	33,550,009	33,629,697
Male	14,204,140	14,180,999	14,227,281
Female	19,385,713	19,355,242	19,416,184

RACE
One race	274,034,883	273,906,163	274,163,603
White	212,541,793	212,310,130	212,773,456
Black or African American	33,768,036	33,676,544	33,859,529
American Indian and Alaska Native	1,959,347	1,902,232	2,016,462
Asian	11,213,133	11,146,928	11,279,338
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	365,474	342,559	388,389
Native Hawaiian	X	X	X
Guamanian or Chamorro	X	X	X
Samoan	X	X	X
Other Pacific Islander	X	X	X
Some other race	14,187,100	13,974,461	14,399,739
Two or more races	6,505,447	6,376,727	6,634,167
Two races including Some other race	1,768,590	1,704,131	1,833,049
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	4,736,857	4,625,574	4,848,140

Race alone or in combination with one or more other races:
White	218,042,912	217,794,808	218,291,016
Black or African American	35,824,849	35,753,718	35,895,981
American Indian and Alaska Native	4,078,299	4,010,707	4,145,891
Asian	12,762,724	12,705,164	12,820,284
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	794,640	762,889	826,391
Some other race	16,083,388	15,870,964	16,295,812

HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Total population	280,540,330	*****	*****
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	37,872,475	37,829,265	37,915,685
Mexican	23,999,836	23,833,201	24,166,471
Puerto Rican	3,608,309	3,521,880	3,694,738
Cuban	1,357,744	1,293,166	1,422,322
Other Hispanic or Latino	8,906,586	8,736,707	9,076,465
Not Hispanic or Latino	242,667,855	242,624,645	242,711,065
White alone	191,238,314	191,201,031	191,275,597
Black or African American alone	33,175,449	33,088,062	33,262,836
American Indian or Alaska Native alone	1,651,069	1,608,382	1,693,756
Asian alone	11,113,311	11,049,699	11,176,923
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	331,228	311,669	350,787
Some other race alone	655,179	607,570	702,788
Two or more races:	4,503,305	4,396,392	4,610,218
Two races including Some other race	364,579	343,032	386,126
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	4,138,726	4,034,337	4,243,115

RELATIONSHIP
Household population	280,540,330	*****	*****
Householder	111,019,533	110,841,882	111,197,184
Spouse	56,245,791	56,074,745	56,416,837
Child	83,343,016	83,152,141	83,533,891
Other relatives	16,473,514	16,288,146	16,658,882
Nonrelatives	13,458,476	13,278,306	13,638,646
Unmarried partner	5,465,733	5,392,912	5,538,554

HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE
Total households	107,366,878	107,118,545	107,615,211
Family households (families)	72,453,348	72,176,749	72,729,947
With own children under 18 years	34,539,212	34,375,235	34,703,189
Married-couple families	54,423,312	54,133,518	54,713,106
With own children under 18 years	24,141,811	23,983,901	24,299,721
Female householder, no husband present	13,325,679	13,225,816	13,425,542
With own children under 18 years	8,145,233	8,062,499	8,227,967
Nonfamily households	34,913,530	34,749,726	35,077,334
Householder living alone	28,704,581	28,547,765	28,861,397
65 years and over	9,848,172	9,770,845	9,925,499

Households with one or more people under 18 years	38,214,015	38,040,254	38,387,777
Households with one or more people 65 years and over	24,654,295	24,554,049	24,754,541

Average household size	2.61	2.59	2.63
Average family size	3.19	3.17	3.21

HOUSING OCCUPANCY
Total housing units	119,302,132	*****	*****
Occupied housing units	107,366,878	107,118,545	107,615,211
Vacant housing units	11,935,254	11,686,921	12,183,587

Homeowner vacancy rate (percent)	1.7	1.5	1.9
Rental vacancy rate (percent)	7.1	6.9	7.3

HOUSING TENURE
Occupied housing units	107,366,878	107,118,545	107,615,211
Owner-occupied	71,302,057	70,916,836	71,687,278
Renter-occupied	36,064,821	35,818,964	36,310,678

Average household size of owner-occupied unit	2.72	2.70	2.74
Average household size of renter-occupied unit	2.40	2.38	2.42

General Demographic Characteristics: 2002	Estimate	Lower Bound	Upper Bound

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2002 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.

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.

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