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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2008
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Pennsylvania in Focus: Census Bureau Pre-Primary Snapshot
With its primary on April 22, Pennsylvania’s 2007 population of 12.4 million has a higher median age than the nation as a whole, a higher percentage of the non-Hispanic white-alone population and a lower percentage of Hispanics, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics. About 65 percent of Pennsylvania’s voting-age citizens cast a ballot in the 2004 general election, about the same as the national rate of 64 percent.
These and other statistics about Pennsylvania’s population at the state and local levels on topics ranging from language spoken to commute times can be found in the American FactFinder section of the Census Bureau Web site <http://factfinder.census.gov/>. More information about the nation’s voting record can be found in Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2004 at <http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html>.
Highlights include the following:
Selected Characteristics | Pennsylvania | U.S. |
---|---|---|
Median age | 39.5 | 36.4 |
Women | 51.4% | 50.7% |
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino | 82.1% | 66.4% |
Black alone | 10.7% | 12.8% |
Hispanic or Latino | 4.2% | 14.8% |
Median household income | $46,259 | $48,451 |
Foreign born | 5.1% | 12.5% |
Persons below poverty | 12.1% | 13.3% |
Bachelor’s degree or higher (age 25+) | 25.4% | 27.0% |
Median home value | $145,200 | $185,200 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Total Population Estimates (2007), State Population Estimates by Characteristics (2006), American Community Survey (2006).