San Mateo - Community Profile




Area (square miles): Land 12 (76.6%) Water 4 (23.4%)

Population

The total population is 92,372 as of the 2000 Census. The census's sample size was 12,365 (13% of the total population).

The size of the urban population is 92,372 (100.0%) with 92,372 (100.00%) living inside urbanized (densely populated) areas.

The racial makeup is: White ~ 60,910 (65.9%), Black or African American ~ 2,304 (2.5%), American Indian and Alaska Native ~ 488 (0.5%), Asian ~ 14,221 (15.4%), Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander ~ 1,369 (1.5%), some other race ~ 8,589 (9.3%), comprised of two or more races ~ 4,491 (4.9%). The number of people of Hispanic or Latino origins (heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth) is 18,970 (21%).

The population is 49% male and 51% female with 21% 18 years or younger and 17% 62 years or older.

Households

There are 91,050 members of households with 72,335 (79%) family and 18,715 (21%) nonfamily household members. There is a total of 37,362 households in this community, with 22,476 family and 3,091 nonfamily households. Out of all family household (total 22,476) the number with their own children under 18 years that are married-couples equals 8,018 (35.67%), Male only householder (no wife present) equals 647 (2.88%), and Female only householder (no husband present) equals 3,245 (14.44%). There are 11,795 single person households with 4,793 (40.64%) male householders and 7,002 (59.36%) 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 14,299 (19%) or that are female are 11,421 (15%).

Household language(s) include: English ~ 24,095 (64.49%), Spanish ~ 4,793 (12.83%), other Indo-European languages ~ 3,675 (9.84%), Asian and Pacific Island languages ~ 4,273 (11.44%).

The place of birth for the people of this community (total 92,372) are comprised of 64,508 (69.84%) natives or born in the United States and 27,864 (30.16%) are non-native foreign born. Among those born inside the United States, the number born in state of residence equals 43,872 (47.49%) and the number born in another state in the United States equals 19,605 (21.22%). The part of the United States where the group born in another state includes: Northeast 5,164 (5.59%), Midwest 7,111 (7.70%), South 3,269 (3.54%), West 4,061 (4.40%). Natives born outside the United States (total 1,031 (1.12%)) include(s): Puerto Rico 103 (0.11%), U.S. island areas 112 (0.12%), born abroad of American parent(s) 816 (0.88%). Non-native foreign born (total 27,864 (30.16%)) include(s): naturalized citizens 12,379 (13.40%) and not a citizen 15,485 (16.76%).

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