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Issued August 2002

C2KPROF/00-CA

California: 2000

U.S. Department of CommerceEconomics and Statistics AdministrationU.S. CENSUS BUREAU

Census 2000 Profile

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Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000Geographic Area: California

[For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]

Subject Number Percent

Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,871,648 100.0

SEX AND AGEMale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,874,892 49.8Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,996,756 50.2

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,486,981 7.35 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,725,880 8.010 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,570,822 7.615 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,450,888 7.220 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,381,288 7.025 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,229,062 15.435 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,485,341 16.245 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,331,635 12.855 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,467,252 4.360 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,146,841 3.465 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,887,823 5.675 to 84 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,282,178 3.885 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425,657 1.3

Median age (years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.3 (X)

18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,621,819 72.7Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,130,354 35.8Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,491,465 36.9

21 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,146,248 68.362 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,253,854 12.665 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,595,658 10.6

Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,513,874 4.5Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,081,784 6.1

RACEOne race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,264,002 95.3

White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,170,059 59.5Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,263,882 6.7American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . 333,346 1.0Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,697,513 10.9

Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314,819 0.9Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 980,642 2.9Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918,678 2.7Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288,854 0.9Korean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345,882 1.0Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447,032 1.3Other Asian 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401,606 1.2

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . 116,961 0.3Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,571 0.1Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,918 0.1Samoan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,498 0.1Other Pacific Islander 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,974 0.1

Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,682,241 16.8Two or more races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,607,646 4.7

Race alone or in combination with oneor more other races: 3

White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,490,973 63.4Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,513,041 7.4American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627,562 1.9Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,155,685 12.3Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . . . 221,458 0.7Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,575,625 19.4


HISPANIC OR LATINO AND RACETotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,871,648 100.0

Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,966,556 32.4Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,455,926 25.0Puerto Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,570 0.4Cuban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,286 0.2Other Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,297,774 6.8

Not Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,905,092 67.6White alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,816,790 46.7

RELATIONSHIPTotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,871,648 100.0

In households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,051,894 97.6Householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,502,870 34.0Spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,877,084 17.4Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,519,953 31.1

Own child under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,035,222 23.7Other relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,848,893 8.4

Under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953,557 2.8Nonrelatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,303,094 6.8

Unmarried partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683,516 2.0In group quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819,754 2.4

Institutionalized population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413,656 1.2Noninstitutionalized population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406,098 1.2

HOUSEHOLD BY TYPETotal households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,502,870 100.0

Family households (families). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,920,049 68.9With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 4,117,036 35.8

Married-couple family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,877,084 51.1With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 2,989,974 26.0

Female householder, no husband present . . . . . 1,448,510 12.6With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 834,716 7.3

Nonfamily households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,582,821 31.1Householder living alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,708,308 23.5

Householder 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 892,207 7.8

Households with individuals under 18 years . . . . . 4,569,910 39.7Households with individuals 65 years and over . . 2,570,170 22.3

Average household size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.87 (X)Average family size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.43 (X)

HOUSING OCCUPANCYTotal housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,214,549 100.0

Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,502,870 94.2Vacant housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711,679 5.8

For seasonal, recreational, oroccasional use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236,857 1.9

Homeowner vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 (X)Rental vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7 (X)

HOUSING TENUREOccupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,502,870 100.0

Owner-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,546,334 56.9Renter-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,956,536 43.1

Average household size of owner-occupied units. 2.93 (X)Average household size of renter-occupied units . 2.79 (X)

- Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.1 Other Asian alone, or two or more Asian categories.2 Other Pacific Islander alone, or two or more Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander categories.3 In combination with one or more of the other races listed. The six numbers may add to more than the total population and the six percentages

may add to more than 100 percent because individuals may report more than one race.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000.

U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000

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Table DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000Geographic area: California

[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]


SCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and overenrolled in school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,129,990 100.0

Nursery school, preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547,066 5.4Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554,361 5.5Elementary school (grades 1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,349,867 42.9High school (grades 9-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,122,098 20.9College or graduate school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,556,598 25.2

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTPopulation 25 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 21,298,900 100.0

Less than 9th grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,446,324 11.59th to 12th grade, no diploma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,496,419 11.7High school graduate (includes equivalency). . . . . 4,288,452 20.1Some college, no degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,879,336 22.9Associate degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,518,403 7.1Bachelor’s degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,640,157 17.1Graduate or professional degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,029,809 9.5

Percent high school graduate or higher . . . . . . . . . 76.8 (X)Percent bachelor’s degree or higher . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.6 (X)

MARITAL STATUSPopulation 15 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 26,076,163 100.0

Never married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,843,907 30.1Now married, except separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,657,201 52.4Separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642,670 2.5Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,457,818 5.6

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,179,638 4.5Divorced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,474,567 9.5

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,457,510 5.6

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERSGrandparent living in household withone or more own grandchildren under18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928,290 100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren . . . . . . 294,969 31.8

VETERAN STATUSCivilian population 18 years and over . . 24,501,941 100.0

Civilian veterans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,569,340 10.5

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIANNONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

Population 5 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,172,459 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609,271 7.5

Population 21 to 64 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,210,794 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,848,497 20.0

Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.9 (X)No disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,362,297 80.0

Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.1 (X)

Population 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 3,469,810 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,465,593 42.2

RESIDENCE IN 1995Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . 31,416,629 100.0

Same house in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,757,539 50.2Different house in the U.S. in 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,251,432 45.4

Same county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,714,481 30.9Different county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,536,951 14.4

Same state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,087,987 9.8Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,448,964 4.6

Elsewhere in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,407,658 4.5


NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTHTotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,871,648 100.0

Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,007,393 73.8Born in United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,633,720 72.7

State of residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,019,097 50.2Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,614,623 22.5

Born outside United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373,673 1.1Foreign born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,864,255 26.2

Entered 1990 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,270,746 9.7Naturalized citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,473,266 10.3Not a citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,390,989 15.9

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORNTotal (excluding born at sea). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,864,188 100.0

Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696,578 7.9Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,918,642 32.9Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,255 1.3Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,131 0.8Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,926,803 55.6Northern America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,779 1.6

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOMEPopulation 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,416,629 100.0

English only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,014,873 60.5Language other than English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,401,756 39.5

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 6,277,779 20.0Spanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,105,505 25.8

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 4,303,949 13.7Other Indo-European languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,335,332 4.3

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 453,589 1.4Asian and Pacific Island languages . . . . . . . . . . . 2,709,179 8.6

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 1,438,588 4.6

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,871,648 100.0Total ancestries reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,569,389 105.0

Arab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192,887 0.6Czech1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118,889 0.4Danish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207,030 0.6Dutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417,382 1.2English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,521,355 7.4French (except Basque)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783,576 2.3French Canadian1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148,265 0.4German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,332,396 9.8Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,284 0.4Hungarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133,988 0.4Irish1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,622,089 7.7Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,450,884 4.3Lithuanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,406 0.2Norwegian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436,128 1.3Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491,325 1.5Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330,974 1.0Russian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402,480 1.2Scotch-Irish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410,310 1.2Scottish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541,890 1.6Slovak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,535 0.1Subsaharan African. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184,921 0.5Swedish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459,897 1.4Swiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,485 0.3Ukrainian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,125 0.2United States or American. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,140,830 3.4Welsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188,414 0.6West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) . . . . . . . . 63,639 0.2Other ancestries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,590,005 54.9

-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.1The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsa-tian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.



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Table DP-3. Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics: 2000Geographic area: California[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]


EMPLOYMENT STATUSPopulation 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,596,144 100.0

In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,977,879 62.4Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,829,202 61.8

Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,718,928 57.5Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,110,274 4.3

Percent of civilian labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.0 (X)Armed Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148,677 0.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,618,265 37.6

Females 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,998,409 100.0In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,212,610 55.5

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,195,990 55.4Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,673,578 51.3

Own children under 6 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,782,416 100.0All parents in family in labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,441,714 51.8

COMMUTING TO WORKWorkers 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,525,322 100.0

Car, truck, or van - - drove alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,432,462 71.8Car, truck, or van - - carpooled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,113,313 14.5Public transportation (including taxicab) . . . . . . . . . 736,037 5.1Walked. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414,581 2.9Other means. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271,893 1.9Worked at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557,036 3.8Mean travel time to work (minutes)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.7 (X)

Employed civilian population16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,718,928 100.0

OCCUPATIONManagement, professional, and relatedoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,295,069 36.0

Service occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,173,874 14.8Sales and office occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,939,383 26.8Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . 196,695 1.3Construction, extraction, and maintenanceoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,239,160 8.4

Production, transportation, and material movingoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,874,747 12.7

INDUSTRYAgriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting,and mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282,717 1.9

Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915,023 6.2Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,930,141 13.1Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596,309 4.1Retail trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,641,243 11.2Transportation and warehousing, and utilities . . . . 689,387 4.7Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577,463 3.9Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental andleasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,016,916 6.9

Professional, scientific, management, adminis-trative, and waste management services . . . . . . . 1,711,625 11.6

Educational, health and social services . . . . . . . . . 2,723,928 18.5Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodationand food services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,204,211 8.2

Other services (except public administration) . . . . 761,154 5.2Public administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668,811 4.5

CLASS OF WORKERPrivate wage and salary workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,257,393 76.5Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,158,071 14.7Self-employed workers in own not incorporatedbusiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,249,530 8.5

Unpaid family workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,934 0.4


INCOME IN 1999Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,512,020 100.0

Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967,089 8.4$10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648,780 5.6$15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,318,246 11.5$25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,315,085 11.4$35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,745,961 15.2$50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,202,873 19.1$75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,326,569 11.5$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,192,618 10.4$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385,248 3.3$200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409,551 3.6Median household income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,493 (X)

With earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,502,776 82.5Mean earnings (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,725 (X)

With Social Security income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,565,234 22.3Mean Social Security income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . 11,331 (X)

With Supplemental Security Income . . . . . . . . . . . . 607,106 5.3Mean Supplemental Security Income(dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,990 (X)

With public assistance income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563,409 4.9Mean public assistance income (dollars)1 . . . . . 4,819 (X)

With retirement income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,774,452 15.4Mean retirement income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,826 (X)

Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,985,489 100.0Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457,118 5.7$10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365,527 4.6$15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834,317 10.4$25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873,396 10.9$35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,207,938 15.1$50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,615,410 20.2$75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,034,671 13.0$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955,377 12.0$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310,407 3.9$200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331,328 4.1Median family income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,025 (X)

Per capita income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,711 (X)Median earnings (dollars):Male full-time, year-round workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,627 (X)Female full-time, year-round workers . . . . . . . . . . . 31,722 (X)

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povertylevel

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povertylevel

POVERTY STATUS IN 1999Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845,991 10.6

With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 699,159 15.3With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 366,529 19.0

Families with female householder, nohusband present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350,138 25.0

With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 310,533 32.5With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 147,900 44.0

Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,706,130 14.218 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,949,030 12.3

65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280,411 8.1Related children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,705,797 19.0

Related children 5 to 17 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,216,541 18.5Unrelated individuals 15 years and over. . . . . . . . . 1,321,169 23.1

-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.1If the denominator of a mean value or per capita value is less than 30, then that value is calculated using a rounded aggregate in the numerator.See text.



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Table DP-4. Profile of Selected Housing Characteristics: 2000Geographic area: California

[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]


Total housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,214,549 100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,883,493 56.41-unit, attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931,873 7.62 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327,024 2.73 or 4 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697,779 5.75 to 9 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722,827 5.910 to 19 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619,092 5.120 or more units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,462,793 12.0Mobile home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538,423 4.4Boat, RV, van, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,245 0.3

YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191,345 1.61995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541,056 4.41990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845,325 6.91980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,098,028 17.21970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,504,157 20.51960 to 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,047,205 16.81940 to 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,834,883 23.21939 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,152,550 9.4

ROOMS1 room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611,787 5.02 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,145,774 9.43 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,691,257 13.84 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,923,611 15.75 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,314,491 18.96 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,015,886 16.57 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,261,632 10.38 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724,040 5.99 or more rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526,071 4.3Median (rooms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.8 (X)

Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,502,870 100.0YEAR HOUSEHOLDER MOVED INTO UNIT1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,456,426 21.41995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,630,521 31.61990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,842,387 16.01980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,752,425 15.21970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,023,528 8.91969 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797,583 6.9

VEHICLES AVAILABLENone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,091,214 9.51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,927,721 34.12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,342,204 37.73 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,141,731 18.6

HOUSE HEATING FUELUtility gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,114,829 70.5Bottled, tank, or LP gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434,972 3.8Electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,505,406 21.8Fuel oil, kerosene, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,675 0.3Coal or coke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734 -Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204,699 1.8Solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,508 0.1Other fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,791 0.2No fuel used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164,256 1.4

SELECTED CHARACTERISTICSLacking complete plumbing facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,460 0.7Lacking complete kitchen facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,382 1.0No telephone service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168,029 1.5


OCCUPANTS PER ROOMOccupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,502,870 100.0

1.00 or less. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,752,872 84.81.01 to 1.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701,660 6.11.51 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,048,338 9.1

Specified owner-occupied units . . . . . . . . 5,527,618 100.0VALUELess than $50,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,079 1.5$50,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557,004 10.1$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934,731 16.9$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,027,275 18.6$200,000 to $299,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,234,462 22.3$300,000 to $499,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,054,888 19.1$500,000 to $999,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506,560 9.2$1,000,000 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,619 2.3Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211,500 (X)

MORTGAGE STATUS AND SELECTEDMONTHLY OWNER COSTS

With a mortgage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,367,361 79.0Less than $300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,898 0.3$300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,711 1.8$500 to $699 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223,464 4.0$700 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597,073 10.8$1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,307,350 23.7$1,500 to $1,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,003,607 18.2$2,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,122,258 20.3Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,478 (X)

Not mortgaged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,160,257 21.0Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 (X)

SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTSAS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDINCOME IN 1999

Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,549,648 28.015.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805,396 14.620.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779,363 14.125.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624,144 11.330.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443,312 8.035.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,283,647 23.2Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,108 0.8

Specified renter-occupied units . . . . . . . . 4,921,581 100.0GROSS RENTLess than $200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,249 2.2$200 to $299 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,660 2.7$300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619,698 12.6$500 to $749 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,542,012 31.3$750 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,161,178 23.6$1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870,092 17.7$1,500 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336,834 6.8No cash rent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,858 3.1Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747 (X)

GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OFHOUSEHOLD INCOME IN 1999

Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718,870 14.615.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668,412 13.620.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645,258 13.125.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542,046 11.030.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401,761 8.235.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,677,934 34.1Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267,300 5.4

-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.



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U.S. Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

U S C E N S U S B U R E A UHelping You Make Informed Decisions •1902-2002

Census 2000: California Profile

0 20 40 80 120 Kilometers

0 20 40 80 120 Miles

10,000.0 to 156,014.8

1,000.0 to 9,999.9

200.0 to 999.9

79.6 to 199.9

25.0 to 79.5

5.0 to 24.9

Less than 5.0

County Boundary

California Mean Centerof Population

Population Per Square Mileby Census Tract

U.S. density is79.6

Population Density by Census Tract

43.1% RenterOccupied56.9% Owner Occupied

Average Household Sizeof Renter-Occupied Units:

2.79 people

Average Household Sizeof Owner-Occupied Units:

2.93 people

Total Occupied Housing Units:

11,502,870

Housing Tenure

80

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

85+ Years

0 750,000 1,500,0001,500,000 750,000

FemaleMale

Population by Sex and AgeTotal Population: 33,871,648

Hispanic or Latino (of any race) makes up 32.4% of the state population.

State Race* BreakdownBlack or African American

(6.7%)

American Indian andAlaska Native (1.0%)

Asian(10.9%)

Native Hawaiian and OtherPacific Islander (0.3%)Some other

race(16.8%)

Two or more races(4.7%)

White(59.5%)

*One race

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