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The American Community Survey (ACS) is the U.S. Census Bureau’s program for collecting and disseminating demographic, socioeconomic, and housing data through an annual nationwide survey of a sample of households. Estimates representative of the entire population are reported based on the data collected from the sample. SANDAG applies these figures to our population estimates to derive data for local geographic areas every five years starting with 2010.
All persons not living in households. Includes both institutional (e.g., nursing homes, hospitals, and prisons) and noninstitutional (e.g., college dormitories, military barracks, and workers' dormitories) settings.
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
All persons living in a household (an occupied housing unit).
A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters. If vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
Housing units that are occupied by a person or persons who do not have a primary place of residence elsewhere.
The average number of persons living in a housing unit, calculated by dividing the household population by the number of occupied housing units.
Total number of persons (residents) in an area.
A unit in which no one is living, unless its occupants are only temporarily absent. Units temporarily occupied entirely by people who have a usual residence elsewhere are also classified as vacant.
Divides the age distribution into two equal parts; half of all persons are older than the median and half are younger.
Divides the age distribution into two equal parts; half of all persons are older than the median and half are younger.
A long-lasting physical, mental, or emotional condition making it difficult for a person to do activities such as walking, climbing stairs, dressing, bathing, learning, or remembering. May also impede a person from being able to go outside the home alone or to work at a job or business.
The sum of wage or salary income and net income from self-employment. The amount of income received regularly before deductions for personal income taxes, Social Security, bond purchases, union dues, Medicare deductions, etc.
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
Sum of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental income, royalty income, income from estates and trusts, Social Security or Railroad Retirement income, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office, retirement, survivor, or disability pensions, and any other sources of income received regularly.
Interest on savings or bonds, dividends from stockholdings or membership in associations, net income from rental of property to others and receipts from boarders or lodgers, net royalties, and periodic payments from an estate or trust fund.
General assistance and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).
Farm (net money income from the operation of a farm by a person on his or her own account, as an owner, renter, or sharecropper) and nonfarm (net money income receipts from one’s own business, professional enterprise, or partnership) self-employment income.
Social security pensions and survivors benefits, permanent disability insurance payments made by the Social Security Administration prior to deductions for medical insurance, and railroad retirement insurance checks from the U.S. government.
Income from U.S. assistance program administered by the Social Security Administration that guarantees a minimum level of income for needy aged, blind, or disabled individuals.
Total money earnings received for work performed as an employee during the calendar year 1999.
People on active duty with the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard.
Wage and salary employees and self-employed and domestic workers. Excludes uniformed military.
Resident population, excluding active-duty military.
All jobs in the geographic area, including wage and salary employees, self-employed and domestic workers, and uniformed military.
The highest level of education completed in terms of the highest degree or the highest level of schooling completed.
Schools supported and controlled primarily by religious organizations or other private groups.
Schools supported and controlled primarily by a federal, state, or local government (including tribal schools).
Enrollment in public or private nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, and schooling which leads to a high school diploma or college degree.
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment.
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
Classification of population into four mutually exclusive ethnic groups (Hispanic, White, Black, and Asian) based on a combination of responses to two questions on the 1990 Census form concerning Hispanic origin and race.
Persons who identify themselves as Hispanic/Latino or of Spanish origin. People of Hispanic origin may be of any race.
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. It includes people who indicate their race as "Native Hawaiian," "Guamanian or Chamorro," "Samoan," and "Other Pacific Islander."
Includes all other responses not included in the "White," "Black or African American," and "Asian," race categories.
Total number of persons (residents) in an area.
Self-identification by people according to the race or races with which they most closely identify.
Includes all other responses not included in the "White," "Black or African American," "American Indian or Alaska Native," "Asian," and "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander" race categories.
Refers to owner-occupied vs. renter-occupied housing units.
Refers to combinations of two or more of following race categories White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, Some other race.
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
Total pre-tax annual income of all members of a household.
Sum of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental income, royalty income, income from estates and trusts, Social Security or Railroad Retirement income, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office, retirement, survivor, or disability pensions, and any other sources of income received regularly.
Householder and one or more other people living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption.
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
Units in structures with two or more housing units.
Housing units that are occupied by a person or persons who do not have a primary place of residence elsewhere.
The average number of persons living in a housing unit, calculated by dividing the household population by the number of occupied housing units.
One unit detached structures (with open space on all sides) and one unit attached structures (with one or more adjoining walls extending from ground to roof).
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters. If vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
Mobile homes or trailers to which no permanent rooms have been added.
Units in structures with two or more housing units.
Housing units that are occupied by a person or persons who do not have a primary place of residence elsewhere.
One unit detached structures (with open space on all sides) and one unit attached structures (with one or more adjoining walls extending from ground to roof).
One unit attached structures (with one or more adjoining walls extending from ground to roof).
One unit detached structures, with open space on all sides.
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters. If vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
The number of people in each occupied housing unit divided by the number of rooms in the unit.
Housing units that are occupied by a person or persons who do not have a primary place of residence elsewhere.
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters. If vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
Mobile homes or trailers to which no permanent rooms have been added.
Units in structures with two or more housing units.
Housing units that are occupied by a person or persons who do not have a primary place of residence elsewhere.
The average number of persons living in a housing unit, calculated by dividing the household population by the number of occupied housing units.
One unit detached structures (with open space on all sides) and one unit attached structures (with one or more adjoining walls extending from ground to roof).
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
Total pre-tax annual income of all members of a household.
Sum of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental income, royalty income, income from estates and trusts, Social Security or Railroad Retirement income, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office, retirement, survivor, or disability pensions, and any other sources of income received regularly.
Divides the household income distribution into two equal parts; half of all households have incomes above the median and half have incomes below the median.
People on active duty with the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard.
Wage and salary employees and self-employed and domestic workers. Excludes uniformed military.
All people classified in the civilian labor force, plus members of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Civilians 16 years old and over who are neither "at work" nor "with a job but not at work" during the reference period, and were actively looking for work during the last four weeks and were available to accept a job.
Includes agricultural uses such as orchards and vineyards, nurseries, greenhouses, flower fields, cropland and pasture, as well as mining, sand and gravel extraction, salt evaporation, landfills, recycling centers and auto wrecking yards.
Includes shopping centers, other retail, hotels, motels, public facilities such as churches and museums, hospitals, and commercial recreation facilities such as golf courses and marinas.
Vacant land not available for development for physical, public policy, or environmental reasons.
Land with residential or non-residential activity.
Civilian employment per developed employment acre (industrial, retail, office, and schools).
Land designated for future development into roads or freeways.
Includes light industry, heavy industry, industrial parks, warehousing, public storage, airports, and other transportation facilities.
Rural residential densities; lot sizes of one acre or more.
Mobile home parks with ten or more spaces that are primarily for residential (not recreational) use.
Attached housing units, two or more units per structure, including duplexes, townhouses, condominiums, apartments, and residential hotels.
High rise and low rise office buildings and large government office buildings or centers (outside of military reservations) and civic centers or city halls.
Group living facilities such as prisons, dormitories, military barracks, and convalescent or retirement homes.
Includes parks, open space reserves, beaches, military facilities and reservations, and bodies of water including bays, lagoons, lakes, reservoirs and large ponds.
Total housing units per developed residential acre.
Freeways, surface streets and railroad rights of way.
Universities, colleges, high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, school district offices, and other schools including adults schools, non-residential day care and nursery schools.
Detached housing units on lots smaller than one acre.
Vacant land available for development, planned for specific land uses.
For a respondent who speaks a language other than English at home, refers to his/her assessment of his ability to speak English, from "very well" to "not at all."
The language currently used at home, either "English only" or a non-English language which is used in addition to English or in place of English.
For people 15 years old and over, married, never married, separated, divorced or widowed.
Civilians 16 years old and over who are either "at work" or "with a job but not at work." Excludes people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.
The principal mode of travel usually used to get from home to work.
The kind of business conducted by a person’s employing organization.
The sum of wage or salary income and net income from self-employment. The amount of income received regularly before deductions for personal income taxes, Social Security, bond purchases, union dues, Medicare deductions, etc.
Civilians 16 years old and over who are either "at work" or "with a job but not at work." Excludes people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
Sum of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental income, royalty income, income from estates and trusts, Social Security or Railroad Retirement income, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office, retirement, survivor, or disability pensions, and any other sources of income received regularly.
The kind of business conducted by a person’s employing organization.
Interest on savings or bonds, dividends from stockholdings or membership in associations, net income from rental of property to others and receipts from boarders or lodgers, net royalties, and periodic payments from an estate or trust fund.
For people 15 years old and over, married, never married, separated, divorced or widowed.
The kind of work the person does on the job.
General assistance and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).
Farm (net money income from the operation of a farm by a person on his or her own account, as an owner, renter, or sharecropper) and nonfarm (net money income receipts from one’s own business, professional enterprise, or partnership) self-employment income.
Social security pensions and survivors benefits, permanent disability insurance payments made by the Social Security Administration prior to deductions for medical insurance, and railroad retirement insurance checks from the U.S. government.
Income from U.S. assistance program administered by the Social Security Administration that guarantees a minimum level of income for needy aged, blind, or disabled individuals.
Total money earnings received for work performed as an employee during the calendar year 1999.
Resident population, excluding active-duty military.
All persons not living in households. Includes both institutional (e.g., nursing homes, hospitals, and prisons) and noninstitutional (e.g., college dormitories, military barracks, and workers' dormitories) settings.
Persons who identify themselves as Hispanic/Latino or of Spanish origin. People of Hispanic origin may be of any race.
Total pre-tax annual income of all members of a household.
All persons living in a household (an occupied housing unit).
Sum of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental income, royalty income, income from estates and trusts, Social Security or Railroad Retirement income, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office, retirement, survivor, or disability pensions, and any other sources of income received regularly.
Divides the age distribution into two equal parts; half of all persons are older than the median and half are younger.
Divides the household income distribution into two equal parts; half of all households have incomes above the median and half have incomes below the median.
All uniformed military personnel.
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters. If vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
Mobile homes or trailers to which no permanent rooms have been added.
Units in structures with two or more housing units.
Housing units that are occupied by a person or persons who do not have a primary place of residence elsewhere.
The average number of persons living in a housing unit, calculated by dividing the household population by the number of occupied housing units.
One unit detached structures (with open space on all sides) and one unit attached structures (with one or more adjoining walls extending from ground to roof).
One unit attached structures (with one or more adjoining walls extending from ground to roof).
One unit detached structures, with open space on all sides.
The sum of wage or salary income and net income from self-employment. The amount of income received regularly before deductions for personal income taxes, Social Security, bond purchases, union dues, Medicare deductions, etc.
Civilians 16 years old and over who are either "at work" or "with a job but not at work." Excludes people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.
The kind of work the person does on the job.
Geographic location at which workers carried out their occupational activities.
All persons living in a household (an occupied housing unit).
A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters. If vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
Mobile homes or trailers to which no permanent rooms have been added.
Units in structures with two or more housing units.
One unit detached structures (with open space on all sides) and one unit attached structures (with one or more adjoining walls extending from ground to roof).
One unit attached structures (with one or more adjoining walls extending from ground to roof).
One unit detached structures, with open space on all sides.
Householder and one or more other people living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption.
Families or individuals whose total income falls below the poverty threshold set by the Census Bureau, according to family size and composition.
A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters. If vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
Housing units that are occupied by a person or persons who do not have a primary place of residence elsewhere.
The monthly rent agreed to or contracted for, regardless of any furnishings, utilities, fees, meals, or services that may be included. For vacant units, it is the monthly rent asked for the rental unit at the time of interview.
Contract rent plus the estimated average monthly cost of utilities and fuels if these are paid for by the renter.
Civilians 16 years old and over who are either "at work" or "with a job but not at work." Excludes people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.
The principal mode of travel usually used to get from home to work.
The total number of minutes that it usually takes to get from home to work each day.
Passenger cars, vans, and pickup or panel trucks of 1-ton capacity or less kept at home and available for use by household members. Excludes vehicles kept at home but used only for business purposes.
Civilians 16 years old and over who are either "at work" or "with a job but not at work." Excludes people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.
The total number of minutes that it usually takes to get from home to work each day.
A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters. If vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
Mobile homes or trailers to which no permanent rooms have been added.
Units in structures with two or more housing units.
Housing units that are occupied by a person or persons who do not have a primary place of residence elsewhere.
One unit detached structures (with open space on all sides) and one unit attached structures (with one or more adjoining walls extending from ground to roof).
One unit attached structures (with one or more adjoining walls extending from ground to roof).
One unit detached structures, with open space on all sides.
A unit in which no one is living, unless its occupants are only temporarily absent. Units temporarily occupied entirely by people who have a usual residence elsewhere are also classified as vacant.
Respondent's estimate of how much the house and lot, mobile home and lot, or condominium unit would sell for if it were for sale.
Civilians 16 years old and over who are either "at work" or "with a job but not at work." Excludes people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.
A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.
Passenger cars, vans, and pickup or panel trucks of 1-ton capacity or less kept at home and available for use by household members. Excludes vehicles kept at home but used only for business purposes.