Redwood City - Community Profile




Area (square miles): Land 19 (56.4%) Water 15 (43.6%)

Population

The total population is 75,447 as of the 2000 Census. The census's sample size was 9,885 (13% of the total population).

The size of the urban population is 75,447 (100.0%) with 75,447 (100.00%) living inside urbanized (densely populated) areas.

The racial makeup is: White ~ 51,813 (68.7%), Black or African American ~ 1,824 (2.4%), American Indian and Alaska Native ~ 406 (0.5%), Asian ~ 6,932 (9.2%), Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander ~ 566 (0.8%), some other race ~ 10,349 (13.7%), comprised of two or more races ~ 3,557 (4.7%). The number of people of Hispanic or Latino origins (heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth) is 23,439 (31%).

The population is 50% male and 50% female with 24% 18 years or younger and 12% 62 years or older.

Households

There are 73,571 members of households with 60,399 (82%) family and 13,172 (18%) nonfamily household members. There is a total of 28,153 households in this community, with 18,122 family and 2,405 nonfamily households. Out of all family household (total 18,122) the number with their own children under 18 years that are married-couples equals 6,901 (38.08%), Male only householder (no wife present) equals 598 (3.30%), and Female only householder (no husband present) equals 2,691 (14.85%). There are 7,626 single person households with 3,418 (44.82%) male householders and 4,208 (55.18%) 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 12,477 (21%) or that are female are 9,284 (15%).

Household language(s) include: English ~ 17,849 (63.40%), Spanish ~ 5,661 (20.11%), other Indo-European languages ~ 2,394 (8.50%), Asian and Pacific Island languages ~ 1,940 (6.89%).

The place of birth for the people of this community (total 75,447) are comprised of 52,776 (69.95%) natives or born in the United States and 22,671 (30.05%) are non-native foreign born. Among those born inside the United States, the number born in state of residence equals 36,992 (49.03%) and the number born in another state in the United States equals 14,994 (19.87%). The part of the United States where the group born in another state includes: Northeast 3,741 (4.96%), Midwest 5,126 (6.79%), South 2,982 (3.95%), West 3,145 (4.17%). Natives born outside the United States (total 790 (1.05%)) include(s): Puerto Rico 111 (0.15%), born abroad of American parent(s) 643 (0.85%). Non-native foreign born (total 22,671 (30.05%)) include(s): naturalized citizens 7,730 (10.25%) and not a citizen 14,941 (19.80%).

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