Area (square miles): Land 3 (99.1%) Water 0 (0.9%)

Population

The total population is 29,450 as of the 2000 Census. The census's sample size was 3,987 (14% of the total population).

The size of the urban population is 29,450 (100.0%) with 29,450 (100.00%) living inside urbanized (densely populated) areas.

The racial makeup is: White ~ 7,847 (26.6%), Black or African American ~ 6,893 (23.4%), American Indian and Alaska Native ~ 130 (0.4%), Asian ~ 563 (1.9%), Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander ~ 2,211 (7.5%), some other race ~ 10,318 (35.0%), comprised of two or more races ~ 1,488 (5.1%). The number of people of Hispanic or Latino origins (heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth) is 17,301 (59%).

The population is 51% male and 49% female with 37% 18 years or younger and 6% 62 years or older.

Households

There are 29,258 members of households with 26,959 (92%) family and 2,299 (8%) nonfamily household members. There is a total of 6,953 households in this community, with 5,287 family and 383 nonfamily households. Out of all family household (total 5,287) the number with their own children under 18 years that are married-couples equals 2,315 (43.79%), Male only householder (no wife present) equals 303 (5.73%), and Female only householder (no husband present) equals 1,330 (25.16%). There are 1,283 single person households with 592 (46.14%) male householders and 691 (53.86%) female householders. The number of singles (15 years and over) that have never married or married but the spouse is absent (separation, divorce, widowed..) that are male are 5,926 (29%) or that are female are 4,795 (23%).

Household language(s) include: English ~ 3,015 (43.36%), Spanish ~ 3,121 (44.89%), other Indo-European languages ~ 282 (4.06%), Asian and Pacific Island languages ~ 499 (7.18%).

The place of birth for the people of this community (total 29,450) are comprised of 16,546 (56.18%) natives or born in the United States and 12,904 (43.82%) are non-native foreign born. Among those born inside the United States, the number born in state of residence equals 11,866 (40.29%) and the number born in another state in the United States equals 4,284 (14.55%). The part of the United States where the group born in another state includes: Northeast 271 (0.92%), Midwest 706 (2.40%), South 2,910 (9.88%), West 397 (1.35%). Natives born outside the United States (total 396 (1.34%)) include(s): U.S. island areas 85 (0.29%), born abroad of American parent(s) 301 (1.02%). Non-native foreign born (total 12,904 (43.82%)) include(s): naturalized citizens 2,856 (9.70%) and not a citizen 10,048 (34.12%).