Mountain View - Community Profile




Area (square miles): Land 12 (98.6%) Water 0 (1.4%)

Population

The total population is 70,467 as of the 2000 Census. The census's sample size was 9,225 (13% of the total population).

The size of the urban population is 70,433 (100.0%) with 70,433 (99.95%) living inside urbanized (densely populated) areas.

The racial makeup is: White ~ 44,677 (63.4%), Black or African American ~ 1,813 (2.6%), American Indian and Alaska Native ~ 283 (0.4%), Asian ~ 14,561 (20.7%), Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander ~ 234 (0.3%), some other race ~ 6,013 (8.5%), comprised of two or more races ~ 2,886 (4.1%). The number of people of Hispanic or Latino origins (heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth) is 12,767 (18%).

The population is 52% male and 48% female with 18% 18 years or younger and 12% 62 years or older.

Households

There are 69,963 members of households with 49,487 (71%) family and 20,476 (29%) nonfamily household members. There is a total of 31,229 households in this community, with 16,074 family and 4,018 nonfamily households. Out of all family household (total 16,074) the number with their own children under 18 years that are married-couples equals 5,866 (36.49%), Male only householder (no wife present) equals 435 (2.71%), and Female only householder (no husband present) equals 2,135 (13.28%). There are 11,137 single person households with 5,930 (53.25%) male householders and 5,207 (46.75%) 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 14,433 (24%) or that are female are 9,749 (16%).

Household language(s) include: English ~ 19,496 (62.43%), Spanish ~ 3,302 (10.57%), other Indo-European languages ~ 3,795 (12.15%), Asian and Pacific Island languages ~ 4,263 (13.65%).

The place of birth for the people of this community (total 70,467) are comprised of 45,806 (65.00%) natives or born in the United States and 24,661 (35.00%) are non-native foreign born. Among those born inside the United States, the number born in state of residence equals 24,802 (35.20%) and the number born in another state in the United States equals 19,962 (28.33%). The part of the United States where the group born in another state includes: Northeast 6,142 (8.72%), Midwest 6,442 (9.14%), South 3,716 (5.27%), West 3,662 (5.20%). Natives born outside the United States (total 1,042 (1.48%)) include(s): Puerto Rico 164 (0.23%), born abroad of American parent(s) 827 (1.17%). Non-native foreign born (total 24,661 (35.00%)) include(s): naturalized citizens 7,252 (10.29%) and not a citizen 17,409 (24.71%).

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