POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS

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Household Composition

In 2000, 78 percent of adult women lived with relatives, including a spouse, their children, and parents. Over half of all women lived in a married-couple family, and another 12 percent lived with their children but not with a spouse. Slightly more than one-fifth of women lived alone or with an unrelated individual. Married couples made up a smaller portion of family households in 2000 than in 1970.(1)

1 - Fields, J. and Casper, L.M. America's Families and Living Arrangements: Population Characteristics, 2000. U.S. Census Bureau, June 2001.

Adult women by household composition, 2000: women living with non-relatives: 7.1%; Women living alone: 14.8%; Women in female-headed families: 12.0%; Women in married-couple families: 53.8%; women living with parents or other relatives: 12.3%.

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