ACS: 2003 ACS Tabular Profile for New Castle County -- Table 1

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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	497,337	*****	*****
SEX AND AGE
Male	241,635	241,025	242,245
Female	255,702	255,092	256,312
Under 5 years	34,206	34,107	34,305
5 to 9 years	35,527	33,295	37,759
10 to 14 years	35,717	33,486	37,948
15 to 19 years	30,970	30,359	31,581
20 to 24 years	33,813	32,946	34,680
25 to 34 years	68,818	68,089	69,547
35 to 44 years	81,017	80,514	81,520
45 to 54 years	72,234	71,704	72,764
55 to 59 years	26,774	25,075	28,473
60 to 64 years	22,002	20,329	23,675
65 to 74 years	30,173	29,393	30,953
75 to 84 years	20,276	18,961	21,591
85 years and over	5,810	4,583	7,037

Median age (years)	36.3	36.1	36.5

18 years and over	371,570	371,408	371,732
21 years and over	351,698	350,053	353,343
62 years and over	68,404	66,747	70,061
65 years and over	56,259	55,682	56,836
Male	23,895	23,570	24,220
Female	32,364	31,899	32,829

RACE
One race	490,516	489,107	491,925
White	363,753	361,295	366,211
Black or African American	102,660	101,493	103,827
American Indian and Alaska Native	516	218	814
Asian	16,019	15,223	16,815
Asian Indian	8,594	6,932	10,256
Chinese (except Taiwanese)	2,985	1,918	4,052
Filipino	1,574	555	2,593
Japanese	699	249	1,149
Korean	879	267	1,491
Vietnamese	459	49	869
Other Asian	829	253	1,405
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	0	0	290
Native Hawaiian	N	N	N
Guamanian or Chamorro	N	N	N
Samoan	N	N	N
Other Pacific Islander	N	N	N
Some other race	7,568	5,402	9,734
Two or more races	6,821	5,412	8,230
Two races including Some other race	1,242	426	2,058
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	5,579	4,199	6,959

Race alone or in combination with one or more other races:
White	369,510	366,958	372,062
Black or African American	104,957	104,139	105,775
American Indian and Alaska Native	2,414	1,800	3,028
Asian	18,727	18,090	19,364
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	0	0	290
Some other race	8,810	6,391	11,229

HISPANIC ORIGIN AND RACE
Total population	497,337	*****	*****
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	29,679	*****	*****
Mexican	11,634	9,058	14,210
Puerto Rican	13,582	11,050	16,114
Cuban	965	293	1,637
Other Hispanic or Latino	3,498	2,223	4,773
Not Hispanic or Latino	467,658	*****	*****
White alone	343,431	342,658	344,204
Black or African American alone	101,372	100,451	102,293
American Indian or Alaska Native alone	516	218	814
Asian alone	15,887	15,100	16,674
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	0	0	290
Some other race alone	1,538	700	2,376
Two or more races:	4,914	3,712	6,116
Two races including Some other race	326	57	595
Two races excluding Some other race, and Three or more races	4,588	3,363	5,813

RELATIONSHIP
Household population	497,337	*****	*****
Householder	200,069	196,950	203,188
Spouse	95,591	92,712	98,470
Child	147,900	144,447	151,353
Other relatives	26,131	22,620	29,642
Nonrelatives	27,646	24,005	31,287
Unmarried partner	11,178	9,287	13,069

HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE
Total households	189,444	187,285	191,603
Family households (families)	121,518	118,255	124,781
With own children under 18 years	58,765	55,790	61,740
Married-couple families	90,795	87,374	94,216
With own children under 18 years	42,020	39,616	44,424
Female householder, no husband present	22,431	20,140	24,722
With own children under 18 years	13,498	11,583	15,413
Nonfamily households	67,926	64,758	71,094
Householder living alone	54,620	51,825	57,415
65 years and over	17,342	15,692	18,992

Households with one or more people under 18 years	63,989	61,088	66,890
Households with one or more people 65 years and over	40,561	39,318	41,804

Average household size	2.63	2.60	2.66
Average family size	3.28	3.22	3.34

HOUSING OCCUPANCY
Total housing units	204,984	*****	*****
Occupied housing units	189,444	187,285	191,603
Vacant housing units	15,540	13,381	17,699

Homeowner vacancy rate (percent)	1.3	0.7	1.9
Rental vacancy rate (percent)	12.6	10.5	14.8

HOUSING TENURE
Occupied housing units	189,444	187,285	191,603
Owner-occupied	133,431	130,421	136,441
Renter-occupied	56,013	53,194	58,832

Average household size of owner-occupied unit	2.77	2.72	2.82
Average household size of renter-occupied unit	2.28	2.19	2.37

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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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