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American Housing Survey for the United States: 2003

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American Housing Survey 2003
Table 4-9. Household Composition--Renter Occupied Units
Numbers in thousands. Weighting consistent with the 2000 Census.

		Housing unit characteristics
				Physical problems		Household characteristics						In MSAs			Urban		Rural			Regions
	Total occupied units	New con- struction 4 years	Manu- factured/ mobile homes	Severe	Moderate	Black alone	Hispanic	Elderly (65 years and over)	Moved in past year	Below poverty level	Total occupied units	Central cities	Suburbs	Outside MSAs	Total	Outside MSAs	Total	Suburbs	Outside MSAs	Northeast	Midwest	South	West
Population in housing units	78117	2273	3344	2481	6098	16204	18690	6123	27385	19661	78117	33600	32958	11558	67138	5944	10978	5228	5613	15756	14185	26745	21430
Total	33604	1018	1340	1038	2525	6811	5931	4277	11633	7902	33604	14599	14041	4965	29061	2643	4543	2154	2323	7169	6599	11446	8390
Persons 1 person	12716	364	406	422	953	2581	1106	2949	3908	3238	12716	5767	5032	1916	11139	1079	1577	710	838	3005	2788	4227	2697
2 persons	8953	343	384	208	668	1593	1299	1042	3393	1560	8953	3781	3915	1258	7720	648	1233	598	610	1850	1816	3027	2259
3 persons	5161	136	241	180	336	1205	1210	171	2095	1065	5161	2159	2216	786	4442	415	719	345	372	1068	953	1837	1303
4 persons	3807	102	163	118	268	765	1118	53	1299	982	3807	1610	1637	561	3222	293	585	318	267	696	577	1416	1118
5 persons	1785	39	100	76	164	414	680	29	575	555	1785	752	769	263	1528	134	256	120	129	341	289	579	576
6 persons	758	23	23	22	85	165	311	20	259	298	758	334	325	99	668	47	91	38	52	143	127	226	263
7 persons or more	424	10	21	13	51	87	207	12	104	204	424	195	147	81	342	27	82	25	55	65	50	134	175
Number of Single Children Under 18 Years Old None	21471	699	782	652	1570	3814	2665	4138	7091	4320	21471	9511	8848	3112	18734	1717	2736	1286	1395	4883	4425	7075	5088
1	5312	151	217	153	383	1244	1197	69	2113	1190	5312	2215	2314	784	4568	396	744	356	388	1075	1058	1841	1339
2	4098	107	220	136	295	954	1176	43	1483	1142	4098	1674	1788	635	3427	324	671	354	312	752	620	1565	1160
3	1806	36	87	72	163	498	557	16	662	732	1806	765	745	296	1555	157	251	108	139	290	322	660	535
4	629	15	25	15	79	224	218	11	214	332	629	279	270	81	551	34	78	29	47	116	125	217	172
5	186	6	4	6	20	48	78	0	55	117	186	104	48	34	150	9	37	11	25	30	32	57	68
6 or more	102	3	6	5	15	29	40	0	14	70	102	51	28	22	76	6	26	10	16	23	17	32	30
Persons 65 Years Old and Over None	28930	871	1201	884	2247	6056	5363	0	10966	6504	28930	12694	12090	4147	25083	2237	3847	1879	1910	5742	5636	10197	7354
1 person	3971	122	113	128	250	683	488	3594	570	1217	3971	1610	1654	707	3382	351	589	225	356	1202	846	1072	852
2 persons or more	703	25	26	27	29	73	81	683	97	181	703	295	297	111	596	55	107	51	56	224	118	177	184
Age of Householder Under 25 years	4815	226	181	148	366	864	811	0	3024	1465	4815	2257	1805	754	4278	505	537	278	249	684	1135	1859	1138
25 to 29	4598	162	154	95	341	783	961	0	2230	834	4598	2068	1897	633	4064	345	533	221	289	768	972	1627	1231
30 to 34	4730	135	196	123	381	1000	1063	0	1725	943	4730	2074	2076	581	4063	261	667	343	319	950	824	1745	1212
35 to 44	7110	184	293	218	499	1589	1394	0	2295	1477	7110	3030	3089	991	6131	504	980	484	487	1524	1263	2439	1884
45 to 54	5167	109	253	223	469	1289	828	0	1238	1099	5167	2219	2200	749	4436	394	731	369	355	1163	947	1710	1348
55 to 64	2906	64	138	89	218	598	414	0	539	758	2906	1221	1184	502	2457	253	449	195	249	755	542	931	679
65 to 74	1907	67	69	62	145	397	276	1907	278	590	1907	808	775	323	1636	156	270	103	167	593	372	495	446
75 years and over	2370	70	54	80	107	292	185	2370	303	736	2370	923	1015	432	1996	225	375	162	207	732	545	639	454
Median	38	34	39	42	38	39	35	75+	31	39	38	37	39	40	38	39	40	39	41	42	37	37	38
Household Composition by Age of Householder 2-or-more-person households	20888	654	934	616	1572	4230	4825	1327	7725	4664	20888	8831	9008	3049	17922	1564	2966	1444	1485	4164	3811	7219	5693
Married-couple families, no nonrelatives	8858	295	383	237	541	1067	2274	722	2968	1402	8858	3343	4140	1375	7360	638	1498	749	737	1707	1438	3030	2683
Under 25 years	845	44	64	20	51	76	241	0	507	147	845	325	380	140	704	74	141	75	66	105	150	345	245
25 to 29 years	1297	51	48	24	77	92	429	0	618	186	1297	511	602	184	1132	101	166	83	83	192	238	458	410
30 to 34 years	1643	45	66	47	97	206	448	0	564	227	1643	607	763	273	1328	122	314	160	152	312	228	627	475
35 to 44 years	2326	86	76	60	146	331	634	0	724	361	2326	844	1111	371	1936	174	391	189	197	426	377	763	761
45 to 64 years	2024	43	104	57	141	295	422	0	432	309	2024	779	963	283	1659	115	365	193	168	458	328	647	591
65 years and over	722	26	26	29	30	66	101	722	123	172	722	277	321	124	601	52	121	49	72	214	117	191	200
Other male householder	4139	127	200	87	322	663	1014	162	1734	568	4139	1869	1717	553	3628	310	511	248	244	777	800	1403	1159
Under 45 years	3296	113	150	62	255	491	849	0	1550	435	3296	1480	1363	454	2912	274	384	185	180	586	648	1153	908
45 to 64 years	681	12	42	22	54	142	133	0	168	104	681	304	298	78	570	27	110	59	51	136	131	197	216
65 years and over	162	2	9	3	13	30	32	162	16	28	162	86	56	21	146	9	16	4	12	54	21	52	35
Other female householder	7891	231	350	292	710	2501	1537	443	3024	2694	7891	3620	3151	1120	6935	617	957	447	504	1680	1574	2786	1851
Under 45 years	5751	194	261	207	505	1808	1092	0	2589	2136	5751	2639	2293	819	5038	445	713	333	374	1104	1236	2102	1310
45 to 64 years	1697	31	70	72	167	553	363	0	385	419	1697	768	684	244	1518	144	178	78	100	422	291	554	429
65 years and over	443	6	19	13	37	140	82	443	49	139	443	212	174	58	378	28	66	36	30	154	47	131	112
1-person households	12716	364	406	422	953	2581	1106	2949	3908	3238	12716	5767	5032	1916	11139	1079	1577	710	838	3005	2788	4227	2697
Male householder	6170	159	257	198	491	1253	597	833	2040	1282	6170	2814	2474	882	5354	476	816	392	406	1357	1331	2144	1339
Under 45 years	3447	103	109	102	247	653	357	0	1514	617	3447	1676	1376	395	3065	209	382	187	186	670	770	1272	735
45 to 64 years	1890	40	129	69	171	432	154	0	388	405	1890	797	757	335	1585	185	306	147	151	425	391	631	443
65 years and over	833	16	19	27	73	168	87	833	138	260	833	341	341	152	705	82	128	58	70	263	169	241	160
Female householder	6546	205	149	224	462	1328	509	2116	1868	1956	6546	2953	2558	1034	5784	603	761	317	431	1647	1457	2083	1359
Under 45 year	2647	71	53	63	210	578	180	0	1208	609	2647	1345	979	323	2421	217	226	112	106	531	546	951	618
45 to 64 years	1782	47	46	91	153	465	169	0	405	621	1782	791	681	310	1561	175	221	86	135	476	347	612	347
65 years and over	2116	87	50	70	99	285	160	2116	255	726	2116	816	898	401	1802	211	315	119	190	640	563	520	393
Adults and Single Children Under 18 Years Old Total households with children	12134	319	558	387	956	2997	3267	139	4542	3583	12134	5088	5193	1853	10327	926	1807	869	927	2286	2174	4371	3303
Married couples	5393	151	231	139	357	700	1757	35	1907	1000	5393	2014	2530	849	4457	405	936	483	444	913	833	1880	1767
One child under 6 only	1093	39	65	32	73	107	328	2	519	123	1093	410	523	160	918	72	175	87	88	217	186	367	323
One under 6, one or more 6 to 17	1086	20	39	28	77	143	473	5	336	278	1086	440	486	159	877	60	209	109	100	174	133	382	397
Two or more under 6 only	641	24	28	11	41	58	211	2	278	127	641	234	322	85	538	52	102	69	33	96	103	247	195
Two or more under 6, one or more 6 to 17	384	15	28	11	42	67	132	0	120	148	384	150	164	70	310	32	73	33	38	63	69	140	111
One or more 6 to 17 only	2190	54	71	57	123	325	614	27	654	324	2190	780	1036	374	1813	189	376	185	185	362	343	745	740
Other households with two or more adults	2658	53	162	107	263	700	829	77	987	744	2658	1196	1075	386	2290	192	367	173	194	555	458	929	716
One child under 6 only	609	16	25	28	56	153	177	9	300	133	609	276	250	84	524	34	85	35	50	115	128	207	160
One under 6, one or more 6 to 17	419	16	32	16	48	122	142	11	136	151	419	189	167	64	385	43	34	14	20	75	63	154	126
Two or more under 6 only	193	0	17	10	25	47	64	1	84	58	193	74	82	37	172	25	22	10	11	28	43	81	41
Two or more under 6, one or more 6 to 17	154	2	24	20	29	43	57	2	60	87	154	85	30	39	133	21	21	3	17	32	18	61	43
One or more 6 to 17 only	1283	19	64	34	105	335	388	54	409	314	1283	572	547	164	1077	69	205	110	95	305	206	426	346
Households with one adult or none	4083	115	166	140	336	1597	681	27	1648	1839	4083	1878	1588	617	3579	328	504	213	289	818	883	1563	820
One child under 6 only	600	27	30	16	45	212	75	3	311	286	600	274	228	98	539	51	61	14	47	114	138	235	112
One under 6, one or more 6 to 17	602	14	20	20	55	313	127	0	250	323	602	287	236	79	535	41	67	29	38	115	126	263	98
Two or more under 6 only	258	5	14	10	28	105	52	0	159	166	258	122	74	63	220	37	38	11	26	41	64	115	38
Two or more under 6, one or more 6 to 17	188	12	15	5	24	84	47	0	75	136	188	87	62	39	159	21	29	11	18	27	40	83	38
One or more 6 to 17 only	2435	56	87	90	184	884	380	24	853	927	2435	1108	989	339	2127	178	309	148	161	520	515	866	534
Total households with no children	21471	699	782	652	1570	3814	2665	4138	7091	4320	21471	9511	8848	3112	18734	1717	2736	1286	1395	4883	4425	7075	5088
Married couples	3668	147	167	109	206	389	617	695	1127	432	3668	1419	1690	559	3082	251	586	275	308	829	632	1227	981
Other households with two or more adults	5276	188	215	123	422	889	955	494	2125	740	5276	2430	2189	658	4695	405	581	306	252	1099	1047	1687	1444
Households with one adult	12526	364	401	420	942	2536	1093	2949	3839	3147	12526	5663	4968	1895	10957	1061	1569	705	835	2956	2746	4161	2663
Own Never Married Children Under 18 Years Old No own children under 18 years	22885	718	858	707	1704	4179	3060	4254	7564	4784	22885	10129	9436	3320	19962	1826	2923	1374	1493	5221	4636	7565	5462
With own children under 18 years	10720	300	482	331	822	2632	2871	23	4069	3118	10720	4470	4605	1645	9099	816	1620	780	829	1948	1963	3881	2928
Under 6 years only	3154	114	159	99	240	593	841	2	1574	837	3154	1281	1376	496	2703	260	451	213	236	553	635	1160	806
1	2151	88	118	74	155	405	548	0	1087	516	2151	879	945	328	1845	157	307	136	171	408	432	757	555
2	877	23	37	23	70	172	258	2	424	266	877	348	377	152	750	96	126	69	56	123	172	359	223
3 or more	125	3	5	1	14	17	35	0	63	55	125	54	55	17	108	7	18	8	9	23	31	44	28
6 to 17 years only	5221	120	188	168	369	1404	1241	21	1675	1389	5221	2182	2261	777	4428	385	793	393	393	1000	958	1816	1447
1	2583	70	80	72	195	705	541	12	828	528	2583	1075	1137	371	2206	198	376	201	173	523	517	887	656
2	1775	42	87	65	116	417	464	2	574	511	1775	711	791	272	1478	130	296	155	142	331	274	645	525
3 or more	863	8	21	30	58	283	235	7	273	349	863	396	333	135	743	57	120	38	78	146	167	284	266
Both age groups	2345	65	135	65	214	635	789	0	820	892	2345	1006	967	372	1969	171	377	174	201	394	371	905	675
2	1073	25	62	32	67	274	334	0	365	260	1073	466	455	153	909	72	164	83	81	199	151	421	303
3 or more	1272	40	73	33	146	360	455	0	455	633	1272	541	512	219	1060	100	212	90	120	195	220	484	372
Persons Other Than Spouse or Children@1 With other relatives	5510	90	219	232	463	1431	1728	567	1466	1275	5510	2487	2331	692	4848	345	662	310	347	1256	869	1757	1628
Single adult offspring 18 to 29	2432	38	67	133	209	713	658	79	498	518	2432	1087	1057	288	2130	127	302	140	161	585	402	780	664
Single adult offspring 30 years of age or over	692	7	29	19	81	193	148	315	127	144	692	320	261	112	602	55	90	32	56	192	99	228	173
Households with three generations	822	16	31	47	76	253	272	61	237	287	822	391	328	103	730	61	92	46	42	183	118	267	254
Households with 1 subfamily	729	13	40	29	82	226	284	47	187	231	729	343	284	102	647	63	82	44	38	158	102	220	249
Subfamily householder age under 30	463	7	28	22	52	153	190	13	118	161	463	224	164	75	413	49	50	24	26	80	78	137	167
30 to 64	256	7	12	7	30	73	88	35	69	69	256	115	114	27	223	14	33	20	12	73	23	79	80
65 and over	10	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	10	5	6	0	10	0	0	0	0	5	1	3	2
Households with 2 or more subfamilies	33	0	2	4	3	7	20	0	9	13	33	18	13	2	31	0	2	0	2	0	4	15	14
Households with other types of relatives	2531	43	143	103	199	570	939	210	836	655	2531	1154	1042	335	2241	188	290	140	148	544	378	789	821
With nonrelatives	5180	192	249	119	445	676	1054	165	2425	811	5180	2309	2174	698	4515	407	666	351	291	985	1059	1696	1440
Co-owners or co-renters	2255	125	40	47	167	207	323	47	1287	317	2255	1007	954	293	1987	186	268	142	108	393	510	681	671
Lodgers	771	20	37	28	69	95	229	30	339	105	771	333	336	102	704	79	66	43	23	125	127	238	281
Unrelated children, under 18 years old	423	6	28	9	41	54	149	9	174	108	423	166	190	67	353	27	70	30	39	107	70	130	115
Other nonrelatives	2159	53	164	49	195	357	508	85	821	378	2159	986	873	300	1848	145	311	151	155	447	417	771	524
One or more secondary families	86	0	10	2	12	10	41	0	39	26	86	41	33	11	68	3	17	8	9	22	11	31	22
2-person households, none related to each other	2767	123	113	40	242	321	340	120	1341	335	2767	1209	1220	338	2422	212	345	197	125	527	623	896	721
3-to-8-person households, none related to each other	567	38	6	9	31	40	130	9	311	111	567	293	197	77	517	51	50	25	26	118	105	152	192
Educational Attainment of the Householder Less than 9th grade	2777	31	132	102	277	416	1404	939	684	1214	2777	1296	1002	479	2375	230	402	149	250	596	318	1032	831
9th to 12th grade, no diploma	5131	92	315	182	411	1367	1291	889	1659	1912	5131	2328	1951	852	4420	437	711	289	415	1159	975	1849	1148
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	10249	235	579	319	790	2313	1706	1222	3504	2438	10249	4085	4354	1809	8578	929	1671	760	880	2286	2261	3567	2135
Additional vocational training	887	23	73	25	52	170	130	114	245	155	887	328	400	159	721	80	166	85	79	174	213	274	228
Some college, no degree	6506	279	189	188	483	1436	764	560	2584	1358	6506	2798	2758	950	5701	570	804	414	379	920	1374	2319	1894
Associate degree	2044	76	45	66	109	390	207	143	707	302	2044	786	953	305	1721	149	323	162	156	436	435	600	574
Bachelor's degree	4940	221	56	139	311	700	411	318	1876	501	4940	2314	2234	393	4474	238	466	299	155	1206	913	1555	1267
Graduate or professional degree	1958	83	24	42	144	190	149	207	620	178	1958	992	790	176	1791	90	167	80	87	567	324	525	542
Percent high school graduate or higher	76.5	87.8	66.6	72.6	72.8	73.8	54.6	57.3	79.9	60.4	76.5	75.2	79.0	73.2	76.6	74.8	75.5	79.6	71.4	75.5	80.4	74.8	76.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher	20.5	29.8	6.0	17.5	18.0	13.1	9.4	12.3	21.5	8.6	20.5	22.6	21.5	11.5	21.6	12.4	13.9	17.6	10.4	24.7	18.7	18.2	21.6
Citizenship of Householder Citizen of the United States	29861	948	1281	899	2259	6401	3629	4151	10192	6951	29861	12625	12428	4808	25468	2540	4393	2058	2268	6385	6219	10377	6881
Naturalized citizen of the United States	1779	31	18	73	79	232	705	432	403	411	1779	982	757	40	1724	27	55	39	13	546	144	351	738
Year Foreign Born Householder Immigrated to the United States 2005 to 2009	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2000 to 2004	882	12	7	28	58	91	428	7	519	243	882	424	411	47	849	35	33	22	11	155	130	310	288
1995 to 1999	1196	43	33	38	73	153	642	17	448	255	1196	594	555	47	1143	26	53	33	21	230	134	425	407
1990 to 1994	982	7	9	29	64	78	588	63	296	222	982	546	410	27	947	21	35	27	6	229	87	229	438
1980 to 1989	1363	20	12	60	107	203	810	100	362	357	1363	843	480	41	1338	26	26	11	14	362	90	280	631
1979 or before	1099	20	16	57	44	117	539	372	219	286	1099	549	513	37	1040	21	58	43	16	354	83	177	485
Year Householder Moved Into Unit 2000 to 2004	21902	1010	908	590	1620	4276	3919	1355	11633	5063	21902	9294	9336	3273	19075	1929	2827	1437	1344	3519	4498	8272	5612
1995 to 1999	6692	8	274	262	520	1354	1224	1047	0	1482	6692	2876	2904	912	5790	443	902	429	468	1727	1192	1943	1830
1990 to 1994	2273	0	82	73	180	535	392	600	0	614	2273	1055	862	355	1948	140	324	106	215	773	402	602	496
1985 to 1989	1048	0	35	26	72	231	155	352	0	266	1048	487	425	136	884	54	164	74	82	376	214	238	220
1980 to 1984	581	0	22	32	43	149	98	236	0	142	581	306	203	72	485	18	96	37	54	248	106	133	94
1975 to 1979	398	0	12	29	33	119	73	181	0	92	398	221	104	72	338	22	60	10	50	194	58	78	68
1970 to 1974	228	0	2	7	10	55	23	135	0	68	228	105	74	49	177	12	51	14	38	83	52	57	36
1960 to 1969	282	0	5	5	28	69	35	206	0	101	282	171	74	37	225	6	57	26	31	148	40	72	23
1950 to 1959	112	0	0	8	11	14	13	88	0	34	112	63	23	25	84	5	28	7	20	58	22	25	7
1940 to 1949	62	0	0	5	8	8	0	50	0	29	62	16	22	25	38	10	24	9	15	30	12	19	1
1939 or earlier	27	0	0	2	2	2	0	27	0	11	27	6	13	8	16	3	10	5	6	14	4	7	3
Median	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	1996	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	2000+	1999	2000+	2000+	2000+
Household Moves and Formation in Last Year Total with a move in last year	13408	651	604	299	1051	2517	2519	647	11633	3164	13408	5719	5691	1998	11706	1200	1702	872	797	1951	2778	5045	3635
Household all moved here from one unit	9747	509	420	207	746	1920	1642	562	9747	2460	9747	4130	4117	1501	8493	897	1255	631	604	1373	2047	3762	2565
Householder of previous unit did not move here	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Householder of previous unit moved here	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Householder of previous unit not reported	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Household moved here from two or more units	1498	94	63	24	117	184	220	14	1498	239	1498	589	664	245	1341	175	157	87	70	191	318	559	432
No previous householder moved here	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
1 previous householder moved here	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
2 or more previous householders moved here	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Previous householder(s) not reported	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Some already here, rest moved in	2162	48	120	69	188	413	658	70	387	465	2162	1001	910	252	1872	128	290	154	123	387	413	724	638
No previous householder moved here	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
1 or more previous householders moved here	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Previous householder(s) not reported	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Number of previous units not reported	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

@1Figures may not add to total because more than one category may apply to a unit.

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division

Last Revised: May 27, 2005

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