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American Housing Survey for the United States: 2003

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American Housing Survey 2003
Table 7-9. Household Composition--Occupied Units With Elderly Householder
Numbers in thousands. Weighting consistent with the 2000 Census.

				Housing unit characteristics
		Tenure				Physical problems		Household characteristics					In MSAs			Urban		Rural			Regions
	Total occupied units	Owner	Renter	New con- struction 4 years	Manu- factured/ mobile homes	Severe	Moderate	Black alone	Hispanic	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	37258	31134	6123	1154	2577	641	1232	3931	2514	1610	6158	37258	9900	18630	8728	26180	2889	11078	5145	5839	8013	8549	13229	7467
Total	21627	17350	4277	672	1487	386	738	2045	1221	991	3853	21627	5853	10455	5318	15349	1872	6278	2778	3446	4617	5188	7678	4144
Persons 1 person	9740	6791	2949	242	649	202	410	974	481	524	2324	9740	2921	4377	2442	7302	1018	2438	1000	1424	2155	2425	3460	1701
2 persons	9675	8633	1042	393	703	141	227	657	470	390	1162	9675	2310	4866	2499	6458	746	3217	1424	1753	1942	2386	3414	1933
3 persons	1382	1210	171	27	72	26	61	212	131	45	199	1382	371	721	290	953	82	428	220	208	294	253	532	302
4 persons	447	394	53	3	39	9	26	95	56	6	70	447	124	267	56	333	18	114	76	38	120	70	140	116
5 persons	212	183	29	7	12	7	6	62	43	17	40	212	66	132	15	166	2	46	33	13	50	33	73	56
6 persons	88	68	20	0	2	1	7	22	18	3	18	88	33	47	8	72	2	16	10	6	38	11	22	17
7 persons or more	83	71	12	0	10	0	1	23	21	6	41	83	28	45	10	64	5	19	14	5	17	10	37	20
Number of Single Children Under 18 Years Old None	20776	16638	4138	659	1421	375	701	1823	1077	946	3641	20776	5614	9988	5173	14720	1825	6055	2653	3348	4449	5068	7359	3899
1	549	480	69	9	40	9	19	140	91	23	117	549	140	300	109	398	34	151	76	76	86	85	223	156
2	199	156	43	1	19	1	14	46	34	14	47	199	60	120	19	151	9	49	38	10	45	22	66	66
3	62	46	16	3	5	1	1	17	17	9	22	62	21	33	8	46	0	16	8	8	24	7	17	15
4	28	18	11	0	2	0	4	13	1	0	15	28	12	10	6	22	2	6	2	4	11	3	8	7
5	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	0	8	9	6	3	0	9	0	0	0	0	2	4	2	1
6 or more	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	3	1	0	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
Persons 65 Years Old and Over None	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 person	13915	10322	3594	376	977	265	584	1590	854	709	2914	13915	4037	6493	3385	10191	1283	3725	1593	2102	3034	3260	5022	2600
2 persons or more	7712	7028	683	297	510	121	154	454	367	282	939	7712	1816	3962	1933	5158	589	2554	1185	1344	1583	1928	2656	1545
Age of Householder Under 25 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25 to 29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30 to 34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35 to 44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45 to 54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
55 to 64	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
65 to 74	10782	8876	1907	430	775	175	375	1172	698	566	1611	10782	2839	5299	2645	7398	837	3384	1543	1808	2256	2457	3954	2115
75 years and over	10845	8474	2370	242	713	211	363	873	522	425	2243	10845	3015	5156	2674	7951	1035	2894	1234	1638	2361	2731	3724	2029
Median	75+	74	75+	72	74	75+	74	73	73	73	75+	75+	75+	74	75+	75+	75+	74	73	74	75+	75+	74	74
Household Composition by Age of Householder 2-or-more-person households	11887	10559	1327	430	839	184	328	1071	739	467	1529	11887	2932	6078	2877	8047	854	3840	1777	2022	2462	2763	4218	2444
Married-couple families, no nonrelatives	9228	8506	722	370	624	142	169	516	466	371	1009	9228	2099	4798	2330	6088	689	3140	1466	1641	1830	2268	3242	1888
Under 25 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25 to 29 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30 to 34 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35 to 44 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45 to 64 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
65 years and over	9228	8506	722	370	624	142	169	516	466	371	1009	9228	2099	4798	2330	6088	689	3140	1466	1641	1830	2268	3242	1888
Other male householder	710	548	162	19	64	10	39	110	73	24	97	710	222	346	142	535	48	175	76	94	176	150	222	163
Under 45 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45 to 64 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
65 years and over	710	548	162	19	64	10	39	110	73	24	97	710	222	346	142	535	48	175	76	94	176	150	222	163
Other female householder	1949	1506	443	41	151	33	120	444	200	73	423	1949	611	934	404	1424	118	525	236	287	456	345	755	393
Under 45 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45 to 64 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
65 years and over	1949	1506	443	41	151	33	120	444	200	73	423	1949	611	934	404	1424	118	525	236	287	456	345	755	393
1-person households	9740	6791	2949	242	649	202	410	974	481	524	2324	9740	2921	4377	2442	7302	1018	2438	1000	1424	2155	2425	3460	1701
Male householder	2497	1664	833	44	164	55	149	312	159	178	475	2497	789	1110	599	1838	232	659	286	367	577	582	883	455
Under 45 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45 to 64 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
65 years and over	2497	1664	833	44	164	55	149	312	159	178	475	2497	789	1110	599	1838	232	659	286	367	577	582	883	455
Female householder	7243	5126	2116	198	485	147	261	661	322	346	1849	7243	2132	3268	1843	5464	786	1779	714	1057	1578	1843	2577	1245
Under 45 year	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45 to 64 years	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
65 years and over	7243	5126	2116	198	485	147	261	661	322	346	1849	7243	2132	3268	1843	5464	786	1779	714	1057	1578	1843	2577	1245
Adults and Single Children Under 18 Years Old Total households with children	851	712	139	13	67	11	38	222	144	45	212	851	239	467	145	629	47	223	124	98	168	120	319	245
Married couples	385	349	35	4	27	7	9	72	65	20	71	385	86	218	81	270	24	115	58	57	68	49	165	104
One child under 6 only	29	28	2	4	3	0	0	2	5	6	3	29	3	17	9	28	7	2	0	2	9	2	13	5
One under 6, one or more 6 to 17	27	23	5	0	0	0	0	7	1	4	7	27	7	17	4	25	2	2	0	2	3	3	15	5
Two or more under 6 only	7	5	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	7	5	2	0	5	0	2	2	0	2	3	2	0
Two or more under 6, one or more 6 to 17	9	9	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	2	9	1	5	2	6	2	3	3	0	2	1	5	0
One or more 6 to 17 only	312	286	27	0	21	7	7	61	59	10	53	312	69	177	65	207	12	105	52	53	51	40	128	93
Other households with two or more adults	371	294	77	6	31	1	27	116	66	19	99	371	128	204	39	290	11	81	53	29	91	59	110	110
One child under 6 only	42	33	9	0	8	0	4	9	12	4	3	42	10	24	7	32	3	10	6	4	9	7	15	10
One under 6, one or more 6 to 17	34	24	11	0	0	0	1	17	1	1	17	34	11	17	6	27	2	7	2	5	16	9	6	2
Two or more under 6 only	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Two or more under 6, one or more 6 to 17	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
One or more 6 to 17 only	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Households with one adult or none	96	69	27	4	9	3	2	34	13	7	42	96	25	45	25	69	12	27	14	13	8	12	44	31
One child under 6 only	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
One under 6, one or more 6 to 17	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Two or more under 6 only	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Two or more under 6, one or more 6 to 17	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
One or more 6 to 17 only	89	65	24	1	9	3	2	34	12	4	41	89	25	40	24	64	12	25	14	11	6	12	44	27
Total households with no children	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Married couples	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Other households with two or more adults	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Households with one adult	9743	6793	2949	242	649	202	410	974	481	524	2324	9743	2921	4377	2444	7304	1020	2438	1000	1424	2155	2428	3460	1701
Own Never Married Children Under 18 Years Old No own children under 18 years	21481	17227	4254	669	1479	385	729	2010	1186	982	3814	21481	5811	10380	5290	15241	1860	6240	2755	3430	4594	5169	7623	4094
With own children under 18 years	146	123	23	4	8	1	10	34	35	9	39	146	42	76	28	108	12	38	22	16	22	19	55	50
Under 6 years only	5	3	2	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	5	5	3	2	0	5	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0
1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	3	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
2	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
3 or more	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6 to 17 years only	135	113	21	4	8	1	8	27	35	9	32	135	37	73	24	100	12	34	22	12	20	16	48	50
1	106	94	12	2	4	1	5	20	21	6	21	106	29	56	21	80	11	26	16	10	12	16	40	38
2	19	16	2	1	5	0	0	1	12	1	6	19	5	12	1	12	1	7	7	0	3	0	6	10
3 or more	10	3	7	0	0	0	2	5	2	2	5	10	2	5	2	8	0	2	0	2	5	0	2	2
Both age groups	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	6	2	0	4	2	0	4	0	4	0	2	4	0
2	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	6	2	0	4	2	0	4	0	4	0	2	4	0
3 or more	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Persons Other Than Spouse or Children@1 With other relatives	3498	2931	567	63	253	72	182	675	351	124	643	3498	1027	1802	669	2535	194	964	486	476	826	636	1303	733
Single adult offspring 18 to 29	377	298	79	10	13	17	30	85	64	20	65	377	117	207	54	277	12	100	58	42	102	63	135	78
Single adult offspring 30 years of age or over	2157	1843	315	28	158	41	109	389	224	69	361	2157	659	1085	414	1602	132	556	272	281	516	395	803	444
Households with three generations	512	451	61	5	37	3	25	117	92	24	99	512	149	301	62	398	22	114	74	40	136	79	177	120
Households with 1 subfamily	425	378	47	10	32	1	17	65	78	21	68	425	113	271	41	326	7	98	65	34	113	70	140	101
Subfamily householder age under 30	59	46	13	5	3	0	1	12	13	2	15	59	15	40	4	49	0	10	6	4	17	11	23	8
30 to 64	366	331	35	5	28	1	15	53	65	18	54	366	98	231	37	278	7	88	58	30	96	60	117	93
65 and over	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Households with 2 or more subfamilies	17	17	0	0	3	0	0	4	2	0	0	17	2	14	0	12	0	5	5	0	8	1	5	2
Households with other types of relatives	1231	1020	210	26	101	22	55	316	133	47	295	1231	354	629	247	853	70	377	201	177	273	219	475	263
With nonrelatives	524	360	165	21	46	9	23	76	63	17	82	524	168	248	108	385	32	139	58	76	128	91	175	131
Co-owners or co-renters	113	66	47	10	15	0	9	3	14	8	15	113	30	71	12	94	7	19	14	5	27	21	35	31
Lodgers	81	51	30	0	4	3	3	20	18	3	6	81	36	30	15	71	7	10	2	8	28	13	24	15
Unrelated children, under 18 years old	52	43	9	3	3	0	2	10	7	0	13	52	13	16	23	26	2	26	5	21	7	6	26	12
Other nonrelatives	303	218	85	9	25	7	15	48	33	7	57	303	101	139	62	212	16	91	39	47	70	55	100	78
One or more secondary families	6	6	0	0	2	0	2	6	0	0	3	6	4	0	2	4	0	2	0	2	0	3	2	1
2-person households, none related to each other	362	242	120	21	39	3	14	34	40	11	51	362	108	182	73	277	32	86	40	41	89	65	113	95
3-to-8-person households, none related to each other	26	17	9	0	2	0	3	6	7	3	7	26	14	8	4	20	0	6	2	4	5	7	7	7
Educational Attainment of the Householder Less than 9th grade	3136	2198	939	53	250	88	245	512	506	145	1001	3136	896	1204	1036	1982	283	1154	394	753	605	633	1481	417
9th to 12th grade, no diploma	3563	2674	889	78	324	78	178	592	206	149	880	3563	988	1646	930	2396	312	1167	545	617	831	821	1393	518
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	7245	6023	1222	179	573	105	170	497	251	304	1141	7245	1663	3707	1876	5004	657	2241	995	1218	1739	2088	2268	1151
Additional vocational training	641	527	114	16	83	2	14	37	23	34	84	641	165	301	175	446	53	196	74	122	137	167	208	129
Some college, no degree	3094	2534	560	146	211	58	62	181	115	152	378	3094	909	1530	655	2362	292	732	359	363	447	766	1060	821
Associate degree	764	622	143	47	37	23	19	60	35	38	92	764	191	423	151	554	55	211	115	96	157	159	257	192
Bachelor's degree	2281	1963	318	98	71	17	34	122	79	123	229	2281	713	1167	401	1802	168	478	243	233	481	427	750	623
Graduate or professional degree	1543	1337	207	72	22	18	30	80	29	80	133	1543	494	779	270	1249	104	295	126	167	357	294	470	422
Percent high school graduate or higher	69.0	71.9	57.3	80.6	61.4	56.9	42.6	46.0	41.7	70.4	51.2	69.0	67.8	72.7	63.0	71.5	68.2	63.0	66.2	60.2	68.9	72.0	62.6	77.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher	17.7	19.0	12.3	25.3	6.2	9.0	8.7	9.9	8.8	20.5	9.4	17.7	20.6	18.6	12.6	19.9	14.5	12.3	13.3	11.6	18.2	13.9	15.9	25.2
Citizenship of Householder Citizen of the United States	21330	17179	4151	663	1474	377	728	2035	1082	962	3771	21330	5737	10294	5299	15074	1860	6257	2763	3440	4543	5166	7598	4024
Naturalized citizen of the United States	1295	863	432	24	32	25	30	71	293	76	278	1295	532	698	65	1193	24	102	62	40	376	163	292	464
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	0
2000 to 2004	7	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	4	7	0	2	5	7	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	5
1995 to 1999	29	12	17	0	3	1	0	0	9	6	10	29	13	16	0	29	0	0	0	0	3	6	3	17
1990 to 1994	80	17	63	0	5	0	0	0	25	10	39	80	33	47	0	75	0	5	5	0	18	5	24	33
1980 to 1989	172	72	100	2	2	4	4	17	51	5	42	172	90	82	0	169	0	2	2	0	51	11	37	72
1979 or before	1304	933	372	32	35	28	37	64	344	78	267	1304	513	713	79	1187	31	117	70	47	376	163	308	457
Year Householder Moved Into Unit 2000 to 2004	2778	1423	1355	628	312	56	87	266	175	991	557	2778	764	1374	640	2056	285	722	365	354	424	634	1070	650
1995 to 1999	3031	1984	1047	38	387	49	118	283	219	0	575	3031	745	1548	739	2166	271	866	392	467	532	673	1128	698
1990 to 1994	2323	1723	600	2	215	37	77	201	169	0	435	2323	641	1087	594	1672	207	651	249	387	448	522	860	492
1985 to 1989	1937	1586	352	2	181	28	70	166	121	0	311	1937	483	982	472	1415	171	523	221	301	383	457	679	417
1980 to 1984	1366	1129	236	2	177	31	64	154	68	0	212	1366	395	665	305	989	122	377	177	183	321	286	527	232
1975 to 1979	1866	1685	181	0	112	32	55	183	104	0	322	1866	542	836	488	1291	155	575	242	333	350	468	641	408
1970 to 1974	1744	1608	135	0	77	20	64	213	83	0	288	1744	448	840	456	1174	148	569	259	308	359	413	687	285
1960 to 1969	3438	3232	206	0	24	48	105	349	163	0	556	3438	1025	1656	756	2474	246	964	447	510	867	885	1147	538
1950 to 1959	2272	2185	88	0	3	50	52	176	89	0	372	2272	627	1089	557	1607	174	666	279	383	644	619	683	327
1940 to 1949	625	575	50	0	0	22	41	41	28	0	169	625	122	281	223	366	62	260	100	160	196	172	197	60
1939 or earlier	247	220	27	0	0	13	6	13	2	0	57	247	60	97	89	140	30	107	47	60	91	60	59	37
Median	1982	1977	1996	2000+	1993	1981	1983	1981	1988	2000+	1983	1982	1981	1983	1981	1983	1984	1979	1980	1979	1977	1979	1984	1987
Household Moves and Formation in Last Year Total with a move in last year	1388	741	647	191	142	16	43	135	135	991	251	1388	366	703	318	1054	150	333	165	168	185	320	493	389
Household all moved here from one unit	951	389	562	172	106	14	29	78	74	951	195	951	266	446	239	744	122	207	90	116	136	245	301	269
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	23	9	14	7	5	0	0	5	6	23	2	23	5	16	2	18	2	5	5	0	0	4	14	4
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	414	343	70	12	32	3	14	52	55	17	55	414	96	241	77	292	25	122	70	52	49	71	177	116
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	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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