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Note: The 2003 American Community Survey universe is limited to the household population and excludes the population living in institutions, college dormitories, and other group quarters.

TABLE 1. GENERAL DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
	Estimate	Lower Bound	Upper Bound
Total population	528,759	*****	*****
SEX AND AGE
Male	247,908	247,317	248,499
Female	280,851	280,260	281,442
Under 5 years	33,362	33,196	33,528
5 to 9 years	30,166	28,130	32,202
10 to 14 years	29,396	27,339	31,453
15 to 19 years	17,207	16,601	17,813
20 to 24 years	40,951	40,446	41,456
25 to 34 years	106,438	106,178	106,698
35 to 44 years	82,481	81,612	83,350
45 to 54 years	71,418	70,568	72,268
55 to 59 years	28,557	26,779	30,335
60 to 64 years	25,436	23,703	27,169
65 to 74 years	32,771	32,088	33,454
75 to 84 years	22,772	21,678	23,866
85 years and over	7,804	6,763	8,845

Median age (years)	35.7	35.5	35.9

18 years and over	421,268	420,949	421,587
21 years and over	412,521	410,867	414,175
62 years and over	76,904	75,404	78,404
65 years and over	63,347	62,840	63,854
Male	23,921	23,666	24,176
Female	39,426	38,940	39,912

RACE
One race	520,674	519,058	522,290
White	161,226	156,945	165,507
Black or African American	311,611	310,043	313,179
American Indian and Alaska Native	2,469	1,165	3,773
Asian	16,847	16,187	17,507
Asian Indian	3,304	2,197	4,411
Chinese (except Taiwanese)	3,257	2,320	4,194
Filipino	2,512	1,558	3,466
Japanese	1,028	518	1,538
Korean	1,830	1,114	2,546
Vietnamese	2,355	1,051	3,659
Other Asian	2,561	1,079	4,043
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	484	0	1,068
Native Hawaiian	N	N	N
Guamanian or Chamorro	N	N	N
Samoan	N	N	N
Other Pacific Islander	N	N	N
Some other race	28,037	23,826	32,248
Two or more races	8,085	6,469	9,701
Two races including Some other race	2,886	1,704	4,068
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	5,199	4,135	6,263

Race alone or in combination with one or more other races:
White	166,223	161,707	170,739
Black or African American	316,481	314,779	318,183
American Indian and Alaska Native	4,016	2,539	5,493
Asian	18,842	18,185	19,499
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	696	67	1,325
Some other race	30,923	26,693	35,153

HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Total population	528,759	*****	*****
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	51,900	*****	*****
Mexican	8,240	5,568	10,912
Puerto Rican	2,811	1,615	4,007
Cuban	749	295	1,203
Other Hispanic or Latino	40,100	37,286	42,914
Not Hispanic or Latino	476,859	*****	*****
White alone	143,301	142,930	143,672
Black or African American alone	308,871	307,730	310,012
American Indian or Alaska Native alone	1,312	1,074	1,550
Asian alone	16,524	15,972	17,076
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	127	0	274
Some other race alone	1,155	599	1,711
Two or more races:	5,569	4,442	6,696
Two races including Some other race	564	92	1,036
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	5,005	3,959	6,051

RELATIONSHIP
Household population	528,759	*****	*****
Householder	260,434	255,928	264,940
Spouse	59,411	56,328	62,494
Child	120,713	116,747	124,679
Other relatives	47,355	42,644	52,066
Nonrelatives	40,846	36,291	45,401
Unmarried partner	12,943	11,182	14,704

HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE
Total households	246,669	244,056	249,282
Family households (families)	112,564	108,081	117,047
With own children under 18 years	50,745	47,414	54,076
Married-couple families	55,606	52,221	58,991
With own children under 18 years	20,043	17,752	22,334
Female householder, no husband present	47,760	44,700	50,820
With own children under 18 years	27,294	24,480	30,108
Nonfamily households	134,105	130,119	138,091
Householder living alone	112,249	107,864	116,634
65 years and over	25,976	24,266	27,686

Households with one or more people under 18 years	61,175	57,842	64,508
Households with one or more people 65 years and over	49,971	48,604	51,338

Average household size	2.14	2.11	2.17
Average family size	3.09	3.01	3.17

HOUSING OCCUPANCY
Total housing units	272,394	*****	*****
Occupied housing units	246,669	244,056	249,282
Vacant housing units	25,725	23,112	28,338

Homeowner vacancy rate (percent)	1.4	0.7	2.0
Rental vacancy rate (percent)	4.7	3.7	5.7

HOUSING TENURE
Occupied housing units	246,669	244,056	249,282
Owner-occupied	103,580	100,403	106,757
Renter-occupied	143,089	139,702	146,476

Average household size of owner-occupied unit	2.28	2.21	2.35
Average household size of renter-occupied unit	2.04	1.99	2.09

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Footnotes
The 2003 American Community Survey universe is limited to the household population and excludes the population living in institutions, college dormitories, and other group quarters. Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate is represented through the use of a confidence interval. The confidence interval computed here is a 90 percent confidence interval and can be interpreted roughly as providing 90 percent certainty that the true number falls between the lower and upper bounds.

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)

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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