Area (square miles): Land 3 (100.0%)

Population

The total population is 21,747 as of the 2000 Census. The census's sample size was 2,752 (13% of the total population).

The size of the urban population is 21,747 (100.0%) with 21,747 (100.00%) living inside urbanized (densely populated) areas.

The racial makeup is: White ~ 8,578 (39.4%), Black or African American ~ 10,087 (46.4%), American Indian and Alaska Native ~ 26 (0.1%), Asian ~ 671 (3.1%), some other race ~ 1,146 (5.3%), comprised of two or more races ~ 1,233 (5.7%). The number of people of Hispanic or Latino origins (heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth) is 3,081 (14%).

The population is 48% male and 52% female with 27% 18 years or younger and 13% 62 years or older.

Households

There are 21,742 members of households with 19,792 (91%) family and 1,950 (9%) nonfamily household members. There is a total of 7,155 households in this community, with 5,575 family and 293 nonfamily households. Out of all family household (total 5,575) the number with their own children under 18 years that are married-couples equals 1,872 (33.58%), Male only householder (no wife present) equals 136 (2.44%), and Female only householder (no husband present) equals 1,106 (19.84%). There are 1,287 single person households with 517 (40.17%) male householders and 770 (59.83%) 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 3,234 (19%) or that are female are 3,142 (18%).

Household language(s) include: English ~ 4,364 (60.99%), Spanish ~ 959 (13.40%), other Indo-European languages ~ 1,472 (20.57%), Asian and Pacific Island languages ~ 178 (2.49%).

The place of birth for the people of this community (total 21,747) are comprised of 15,788 (72.60%) natives or born in the United States and 5,959 (27.40%) are non-native foreign born. Among those born inside the United States, the number born in state of residence equals 11,175 (51.39%) and the number born in another state in the United States equals 4,239 (19.49%). The part of the United States where the group born in another state includes: Northeast 1,817 (8.36%)Midwest 199 (0.92%), South 2,145 (9.86%), West 78 (0.36%). Natives born outside the United States (total 374 (1.72%)) include(s): Puerto Rico 272 (1.25%), born abroad of American parent(s) 97 (0.45%). Non-native foreign born (total 5,959 (27.40%)) include(s): naturalized citizens 3,124 (14.37%) and not a citizen 2,835 (13.04%).