Table DP-1.

Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000

Geographic area: Montgomery County, Maryland
[For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]

Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent

Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873,341 100.0 HISPANIC OR LATINO AND RACE

Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873,341 100.0
SEX AND AGE Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,604 11.5
Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418,622 47.9 Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,917 1.0
Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454,719 52.1 Puerto Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,319 0.6
Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,173 6.9 Cuban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,739 0.3
5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,303 7.2 Other Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,629 9.6
10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,202 7.2 Not Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772,737 88.5
15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,535 5.9 White alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519,318 59.5
20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,684 5.0 RELATIONSHIP
25 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126,567 14.5 Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873,341 100.0
35 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,708 17.8 In households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863,910 98.9
45 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,870 15.2 Householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,565 37.2
55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,652 5.2 Spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179,192 20.5
60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,490 3.7 Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261,085 29.9
65 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,103 5.7 Own child under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205,941 23.6
75 to 84 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,071 4.0 Other relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,995 5.7
85 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,983 1.5 Under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,246 1.4
Median age (years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.8 (X) Nonrelatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,073 5.6
Unmarried partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,079 1.5
18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651,583 74.6 In group quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,431 1.1
Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305,157 34.9 Institutionalized population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,436 0.6
Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346,426 39.7 Noninstitutionalized population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,995 0.5
21 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627,408 71.8
62 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,398 13.3 HOUSEHOLD BY TYPE
65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,157 11.2 Total households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,565 100.0
Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,957 4.6 Family households (families). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224,225 69.1
Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,200 6.7 With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 113,665 35.0
Married-couple family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179,192 55.2
RACE With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 89,960 27.7
One race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843,224 96.6 Female householder, no husband present . . . . . 33,919 10.5
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565,719 64.8 With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 19,033 5.9
Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,256 15.1 Nonfamily households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,340 30.9
American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . 2,544 0.3 Householder living alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,299 24.4
Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,651 11.3 Householder 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,022 7.7
Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,626 2.7
Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,590 3.3 Households with individuals under 18 years . . . . . 120,843 37.2
Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,393 0.8 Households with individuals 65 years and over . . 68,919 21.2
Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,168 0.4
Average household size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.66 (X)
Korean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,130 1.7
Average family size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.19 (X)
Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,907 1.1
Other Asian 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,837 1.2
HOUSING OCCUPANCY
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . 412 -
Total housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334,632 100.0
Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 -
Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,565 97.0
Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 -
Vacant housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,067 3.0
Samoan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 -
For seasonal, recreational, or
Other Pacific Islander 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 - occasional use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,707 0.5
Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,642 5.0
Two or more races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,117 3.4 Homeowner vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.9 (X)
Rental vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 (X)
Race alone or in combination with one
or more other races: 3 HOUSING TENURE
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587,681 67.3 Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,565 100.0
Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,507 16.3 Owner-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223,017 68.7
American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,639 0.8 Renter-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,548 31.3
Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,785 12.3
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . . . 1,492 0.2 Average household size of owner-occupied units. 2.79 (X)
Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,421 6.8 Average household size of renter-occupied units . 2.39 (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.

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U.S. Census Bureau
Table DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic area: Montgomery County, Maryland
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]

Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

Population 3 years and over Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873,341 100.0
enrolled in school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240,098 100.0 Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640,345 73.3
Nursery school, preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,229 7.6 Born in United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627,802 71.9
Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,969 5.4 State of residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196,068 22.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,074 42.9 Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431,734 49.4
High school (grades 9-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,535 20.2 Born outside United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,543 1.4
College or graduate school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,291 23.9 Foreign born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232,996 26.7
Entered 1990 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,686 11.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT Naturalized citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,658 11.5
Population 25 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 594,034 100.0 Not a citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,338 15.2
Less than 9th grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,877 4.4
9th to 12th grade, no diploma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,599 5.3 REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
High school graduate (includes equivalency). . . . . 86,009 14.5 Total (excluding born at sea). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232,996 100.0
Some college, no degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,098 16.7 Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,352 13.9
Associate degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,371 4.6 Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,128 38.3
Bachelor’s degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160,754 27.1 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,776 11.1
Graduate or professional degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163,326 27.5 Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848 0.4
Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,911 35.2
Percent high school graduate or higher . . . . . . . . . 90.3 (X) Northern America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,981 1.3
Percent bachelor’s degree or higher . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.6 (X)
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
MARITAL STATUS Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813,460 100.0
Population 15 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 686,877 100.0 English only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556,682 68.4
Never married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,648 27.0 Language other than English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256,778 31.6
Now married, except separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396,306 57.7 Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 105,001 12.9
Separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,423 2.2 Spanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,760 11.5
Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,138 5.6 Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 45,710 5.6
Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,776 4.6 Other Indo-European languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,544 9.3
Divorced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,362 7.5 Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 21,770 2.7
Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,913 4.9 Asian and Pacific Island languages . . . . . . . . . . . 65,111 8.0
Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 32,109 3.9
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Grandparent living in household with
Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873,341 100.0
one or more own grandchildren under
18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,301 100.0 Total ancestries reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957,438 109.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren . . . . . . 4,100 26.8 Arab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,247 0.9
Czech1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,569 0.5
VETERAN STATUS Danish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,944 0.3
Civilian population 18 years and over . . 649,489 100.0 Dutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,129 0.9
Civilian veterans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,501 9.9 English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,323 9.0
French (except Basque)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,300 2.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN French Canadian1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,238 0.5
NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,789 11.4
Population 5 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184,200 100.0 Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,602 1.0
With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,611 6.8 Hungarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,944 0.7
Irish1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,849 11.0
Population 21 to 64 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527,217 100.0 Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,128 4.8
With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,656 12.3 Lithuanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,700 0.4
Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.7 (X) Norwegian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,252 0.7
No disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462,561 87.7 Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,503 3.3
Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.7 (X) Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,893 0.3
Population 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 93,319 100.0 Russian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,429 3.6
With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,541 32.7 Scotch-Irish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,854 1.5
Scottish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,923 2.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995 Slovak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,363 0.3
Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . 813,460 100.0 Subsaharan African. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,402 3.4
Same house in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428,462 52.7 Swedish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,418 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329,031 40.4 Swiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,298 0.4
Same county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189,097 23.2 Ukrainian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,068 0.6
Different county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,934 17.2 United States or American. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,394 4.4
Same state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,492 4.4 Welsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,382 0.7
Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104,442 12.8 West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) . . . . . . . . 15,511 1.8
Elsewhere in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,967 6.9 Other ancestries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367,986 42.1

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

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The 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.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.
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U.S. Census Bureau
Table DP-3. Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics: 2000
Geographic area: Montgomery County, Maryland
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]

Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent

EMPLOYMENT STATUS INCOME IN 1999

Population 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 675,119 100.0 Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,940 100.0
In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477,123 70.7 Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,040 3.7
Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473,851 70.2 $10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,046 2.5
Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458,824 68.0 $15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,325 5.6
Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,027 2.2 $25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,406 7.5
Percent of civilian labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 (X) $35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,248 12.7
Armed Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,272 0.5 $50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,955 20.3
Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197,996 29.3 $75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,573 15.3
Females 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358,902 100.0 $100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,565 17.4
In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230,995 64.4 $150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,199 7.4
Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230,221 64.1 $200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,583 7.6
Median household income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,551 (X)
Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222,298 61.9
Own children under 6 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,536 100.0 With earnings . . . . . . . . . . .1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283,214 87.2
All parents in family in labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,248 60.8 Mean earnings (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,643 (X)
With Social Security income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,754 18.7
COMMUTING TO WORK Mean Social Security income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . 11,531 (X)
Workers 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455,331 100.0 With Supplemental Security Income . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,426 2.0
Car, truck, or van - - drove alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313,935 68.9 Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van - - carpooled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,802 10.9 (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,396 (X)
Public transportation (including taxicab) . . . . . . . . . 57,528 12.6 With public assistance income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,258 1.3
Walked. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,806 1.9 Mean public assistance income (dollars)1 . . . . . 3,222 (X)
Other means. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,324 0.7 With retirement income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,332 17.3
Worked at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,936 4.8 Mean retirement income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,195 (X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.8 (X)
Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226,024 100.0
Employed civilian population Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,199 2.3
16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458,824 100.0 $10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,739 1.7
OCCUPATION $15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,813 4.3
Management, professional, and related $25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,998 5.8
occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259,774 56.6 $35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,878 10.6
Service occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,848 11.5 $50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,908 19.0
Sales and office occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,859 22.0 $75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,379 16.5
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . 403 0.1 $100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,905 20.8
Construction, extraction, and maintenance $150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,122 9.3
occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,986 5.2 $200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,083 9.8
Production, transportation, and material moving Median family income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,035 (X)
occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,954 4.6
Per capita income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,684 (X)
INDUSTRY Median earnings (dollars):
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, Male full-time, year-round workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,005 (X)
and mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920 0.2 Female full-time, year-round workers . . . . . . . . . . . 40,714 (X)
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,240 5.1
Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,536 4.3 Number Percent
Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,081 1.5 below below
Retail trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,078 9.0 poverty poverty
Subject level level
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities . . . . 11,562 2.5
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,677 5.8
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental and POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
leasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,016 8.1 Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,428 3.7
Professional, scientific, management, adminis- With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 6,110 5.0
trative, and waste management services . . . . . . . 89,884 19.6 With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 2,808 5.8
Educational, health and social services . . . . . . . . . 91,357 19.9
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation Families with female householder, no
and food services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,645 6.9 husband present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,755 11.5
Other services (except public administration) . . . . 32,522 7.1 With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,204 15.2
Public administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,306 10.1 With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 1,337 21.8

CLASS OF WORKER Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,024 5.4

Private wage and salary workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326,975 71.3 18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,508 5.2
Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,644 21.7 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,467 5.9
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated Related children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,773 5.9
business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,322 6.8 Related children 5 to 17 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,075 5.7
Unpaid family workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883 0.2 Unrelated individuals 15 years and over. . . . . . . . . 18,268 12.5

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

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If 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.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.
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Table DP-4. Profile of Selected Housing Characteristics: 2000
Geographic area: Montgomery County, Maryland
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]

Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent

Total housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334,632 100.0 OCCUPANTS PER ROOM

UNITS IN STRUCTURE Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,565 100.0
1-unit, detached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171,277 51.2 1.00 or less. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306,778 94.5
1-unit, attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,951 17.9 1.01 to 1.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,222 2.8
2 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,254 0.4 1.51 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,565 2.6
3 or 4 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,129 1.5
5 to 9 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,062 5.4 Specified owner-occupied units . . . . . . . . 191,551 100.0
10 to 19 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,880 8.9 VALUE
20 or more units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,454 14.5 Less than $50,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,308 0.7
Mobile home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618 0.2 $50,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,972 3.1
Boat, RV, van, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 - $100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,427 16.9
$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,330 22.6
YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT $200,000 to $299,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,872 26.6
1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,863 2.1 $300,000 to $499,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,668 20.7
1995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,274 5.2 $500,000 to $999,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,547 8.1
1990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,790 7.4 $1,000,000 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,427 1.3
1980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,758 23.2 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221,800 (X)
1970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,152 18.6
1960 to 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,402 18.3 MORTGAGE STATUS AND SELECTED
1940 to 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,803 20.3 MONTHLY OWNER COSTS
1939 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,590 5.0 With a mortgage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158,344 82.7
Less than $300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 0.1
ROOMS $300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,231 0.6
1 room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,443 2.2 $500 to $699 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,402 1.8
2 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,944 5.1 $700 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,594 7.1
3 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,533 9.1 $1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,195 25.2
4 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,865 10.1 $1,500 to $1,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,017 21.4
5 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,036 12.0 $2,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,771 26.5
6 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,926 11.9 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,577 (X)
7 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,072 12.3 Not mortgaged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,207 17.3
8 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,692 13.7 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448 (X)
9 or more rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,121 23.6
Median (rooms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5 (X) SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTS
AS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLD
Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,565 100.0 INCOME IN 1999
YEAR HOUSEHOLDER MOVED INTO UNIT Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,317 33.6
1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,494 18.9 15.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,504 18.0
1995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,148 29.3 20.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,543 15.4
1990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,221 17.3 25.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,993 11.0
1980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,135 18.5 30.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,967 6.8
1970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,143 8.4 35.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,648 15.0
1969 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,424 7.5 Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579 0.3

VEHICLES AVAILABLE Specified renter-occupied units . . . . . . . . 101,221 100.0

None . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,313 7.5 GROSS RENT
1 ........................................... 111,320 34.3 Less than $200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,393 2.4
2 ........................................... 134,752 41.5 $200 to $299 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,613 1.6
3 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,180 16.7 $300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,689 3.6
$500 to $749 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,869 16.7
HOUSE HEATING FUEL $750 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,319 36.9
Utility gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196,104 60.4 $1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,905 26.6
Bottled, tank, or LP gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,083 0.9 $1,500 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,862 9.7
Electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,042 31.7 No cash rent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,571 2.5
Fuel oil, kerosene, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,562 6.3 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914 (X)
Coal or coke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 -
Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 0.1 GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OF
Solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 - HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN 1999
Other fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705 0.2 Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,974 17.8
No fuel used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626 0.2 15.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,626 16.4
20.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,279 15.1
SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS 25.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,620 11.5
Lacking complete plumbing facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,122 0.3 30.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,738 8.6
Lacking complete kitchen facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,203 0.4 35.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,070 26.7
No telephone service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,319 0.4 Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,914 3.9

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

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

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