Table 21. Householders Age 55 Years and Over by Metropolitan-Nonmetropolitan Residence, Sex and Age:  March 2002                                                                  38
            (Numbers in thousands)

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|Sex and metropolitan-nonmetropolitan        |               |                              Age of Householder                               |
|residence                                   |               |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                            |               |               |               |               |               | 85 years and  |
|                                            |     Total     |55 to 59 years |60 to 64 years |65 to 74 years |75 to 84 years |     over      |
|                                            |---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
|                                            |Number |Percent|Number |Percent|Number |Percent|Number |Percent|Number |Percent|Number |Percent|
|--------------------------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
|Total                                       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
|  Total                                     | 59,644|  100.0| 14,667|  100.0| 11,208|  100.0| 18,123|  100.0| 12,191|  100.0|  3,456|  100.0|
|  Metropolitan area, inside central city    | 15,476|   25.9|  3,654|   24.9|  2,800|   25.0|  4,734|   26.1|  3,372|   27.7|    917|   26.5|
|  Metropolitan area, outside central city   | 30,620|   51.3|  7,960|   54.3|  5,830|   52.0|  9,152|   50.5|  5,991|   49.1|  1,686|   48.8|
|  Nonmetropolitan area                      | 13,548|   22.7|  3,052|   20.8|  2,578|   23.0|  4,236|   23.4|  2,828|   23.2|    853|   24.7|
|Male                                        |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
|  Total                                     | 26,608|  100.0|  7,091|  100.0|  5,282|  100.0|  8,245|  100.0|  4,898|  100.0|  1,093|  100.0|
|  Metropolitan area, inside central city    |  6,641|   25.0|  1,765|   24.9|  1,245|   23.6|  2,071|   25.1|  1,298|   26.5|    261|   23.9|
|  Metropolitan area, outside central city   | 13,857|   52.1|  3,895|   54.9|  2,765|   52.4|  4,281|   51.9|  2,368|   48.4|    547|   50.1|
|  Nonmetropolitan area                      |  6,111|   23.0|  1,431|   20.2|  1,271|   24.1|  1,893|   23.0|  1,232|   25.2|    284|   26.0|
|Female                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
|  Total                                     | 33,035|  100.0|  7,575|  100.0|  5,926|  100.0|  9,878|  100.0|  7,293|  100.0|  2,363|  100.0|
|  Metropolitan area, inside central city    |  8,836|   26.7|  1,890|   24.9|  1,554|   26.2|  2,663|   27.0|  2,074|   28.4|    656|   27.7|
|  Metropolitan area, outside central city   | 16,763|   50.7|  4,065|   53.7|  3,064|   51.7|  4,872|   49.3|  3,623|   49.7|  1,139|   48.2|
|  Nonmetropolitan area                      |  7,437|   22.5|  1,621|   21.4|  1,308|   22.1|  2,344|   23.7|  1,596|   21.9|    568|   24.1|
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1/ Regions are described in the Current Population Survey (CPS)
glossary of subject concepts at www.census.gov/population/www/cps/cpsdef.html.

SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March 2002, Special Populations Branch, Population Division.