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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	6,218,773	*****	*****
SEX AND AGE
Male	3,000,400	2,992,900	3,007,900
Female	3,218,373	3,210,873	3,225,873
Under 5 years	396,650	389,887	403,413
5 to 9 years	410,856	396,564	425,148
10 to 14 years	426,915	411,736	442,094
15 to 19 years	374,049	366,148	381,950
20 to 24 years	358,117	348,269	367,965
25 to 34 years	871,732	860,085	883,379
35 to 44 years	1,039,326	1,029,830	1,048,822
45 to 54 years	920,880	911,982	929,778
55 to 59 years	352,542	342,012	363,072
60 to 64 years	270,083	259,842	280,324
65 to 74 years	395,183	390,621	399,745
75 to 84 years	312,974	305,190	320,758
85 years and over	89,466	82,807	96,125

Median age (years)	37.6	37.4	37.8

18 years and over	4,737,509	4,734,358	4,740,660
21 years and over	4,538,500	4,528,847	4,548,153
62 years and over	942,057	931,758	952,356
65 years and over	797,623	792,815	802,431
Male	327,104	324,467	329,741
Female	470,519	466,453	474,585

RACE
One race	6,129,490	6,117,530	6,141,450
White	5,245,967	5,224,051	5,267,883
Black or African American	375,434	360,802	390,066
American Indian and Alaska Native	11,030	6,934	15,126
Asian	274,778	267,003	282,553
Asian Indian	60,732	49,991	71,473
Chinese (except Taiwanese)	91,445	78,683	104,207
Filipino	13,781	7,824	19,738
Japanese	9,443	4,950	13,936
Korean	13,347	9,157	17,537
Vietnamese	48,849	33,835	63,863
Other Asian	37,181	26,947	47,415
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	2,748	0	5,563
Native Hawaiian	N	N	N
Guamanian or Chamorro	N	N	N
Samoan	N	N	N
Other Pacific Islander	N	N	N
Some other race	219,533	195,800	243,266
Two or more races	89,283	77,323	101,243
Two races including Some other race	24,101	17,725	30,477
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	65,182	54,934	75,430

Race alone or in combination with one or more other races:
White	5,322,215	5,301,209	5,343,221
Black or African American	415,151	400,814	429,488
American Indian and Alaska Native	34,377	26,892	41,862
Asian	293,494	287,656	299,332
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	3,166	339	5,993
Some other race	246,195	220,566	271,824

HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Total population	6,218,773	*****	*****
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	463,452	458,711	468,193
Mexican	26,400	19,314	33,486
Puerto Rican	225,870	210,182	241,558
Cuban	4,376	1,735	7,017
Other Hispanic or Latino	206,806	191,380	222,232
Not Hispanic or Latino	5,755,321	5,750,580	5,760,062
White alone	5,024,834	5,015,575	5,034,093
Black or African American alone	346,568	337,019	356,117
American Indian or Alaska Native alone	6,586	3,787	9,385
Asian alone	273,589	265,978	281,200
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	1,308	0	2,721
Some other race alone	35,568	26,026	45,110
Two or more races:	66,868	56,005	77,731
Two races including Some other race	9,532	5,967	13,097
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	57,336	47,201	67,471

RELATIONSHIP
Household population	6,218,773	*****	*****
Householder	2,525,958	2,509,313	2,542,603
Spouse	1,231,394	1,213,075	1,249,713
Child	1,850,455	1,830,028	1,870,882
Other relatives	296,523	276,685	316,361
Nonrelatives	314,443	293,935	334,951
Unmarried partner	121,684	112,527	130,841

HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE
Total households	2,435,941	2,422,239	2,449,643
Family households (families)	1,584,582	1,566,534	1,602,630
With own children under 18 years	772,189	754,987	789,391
Married-couple families	1,185,243	1,165,286	1,205,200
With own children under 18 years	550,531	534,841	566,221
Female householder, no husband present	306,393	292,008	320,778
With own children under 18 years	178,095	167,472	188,718
Nonfamily households	851,359	832,107	870,611
Householder living alone	693,230	678,974	707,486
65 years and over	255,972	245,856	266,088

Households with one or more people under 18 years	832,658	814,338	850,978
Households with one or more people 65 years and over	592,945	583,081	602,809

Average household size	2.55	2.53	2.57
Average family size	3.17	3.14	3.20

HOUSING OCCUPANCY
Total housing units	2,660,847	*****	*****
Occupied housing units	2,435,941	2,422,239	2,449,643
Vacant housing units	224,906	211,204	238,608

Homeowner vacancy rate (percent)	0.7	0.5	0.9
Rental vacancy rate (percent)	5.3	4.4	6.3

HOUSING TENURE
Occupied housing units	2,435,941	2,422,239	2,449,643
Owner-occupied	1,571,928	1,548,219	1,595,637
Renter-occupied	864,013	842,934	885,092

Average household size of owner-occupied unit	2.78	2.75	2.81
Average household size of renter-occupied unit	2.15	2.11	2.19

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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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