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Table HINC-05. Percent Distribution of Households, by Selected Characteristics Within Income Quintile and Top 5 Percent in 2007

[Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2008 Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Numbers in thousands. Households as of March of the following year. A.O.I.C. stands for alone or in combination]

 

  Total Lowest fifth Second fifth Middle fifth Fourth fifth Highest fifth Top 5 percent
 
Number 		116,783 23,357 23,357 23,357 23,357 23,357 5,839
 
Lower limit 		(X) (X) 20,300 39,100 62,000 100,000 177,000

Type of residence
 
Inside metropolitan statistical areas 		97,591 18,473 18,918 19,422 19,715 21,064 5,441
  Inside principal cities 39,072 9,210 8,324 7,912 6,922 6,703 1,742
  Outside principal cities 58,520 9,262 10,595 11,510 12,792 14,360 3,699
Outside metropolitan statistical areas 5/ 19,192 4,887 4,442 3,932 3,643 2,288 397

Region
 
Northeast 		21,351 4,348 3,851 3,981 4,240 4,931 1,382
Midwest 26,266 5,034 5,368 5,460 5,570 4,834 1,100
South 43,062 9,338 9,181 8,751 8,187 7,605 1,763
West 26,105 4,639 4,961 5,161 5,361 5,981 1,595

Race and Hispanic Origin of householder
 
All Races 		116,783 23,360 23,361 23,354 23,358 23,351 5,839
White A.O.I.C. 96,403 17,552 19,055 19,375 20,028 20,392 5,192
  White alone 1/ 95,112 17,246 18,764 19,130 19,795 20,177 5,146
      White alone, not Hispanic 82,765 14,219 15,549 16,433 17,661 18,903 4,906
Black A.O.I.C. 14,976 4,898 3,442 2,936 2,234 1,467 253
  Black alone 2/ 14,551 4,766 3,352 2,862 2,171 1,400 241
  Asian A.O.I.C. 4,715 719 692 848 998 1,458 390
      Asian alone 3/ 4,494 688 653 807 947 1,399 376
Hispanic (of any race) 13,339 3,324 3,458 2,884 2,320 1,352 253

Type of household
 
Family households 		77,873 9,208 13,726 15,837 18,813 20,289 5,236
  Married-couple families 58,370 4,000 8,719 11,511 15,705 18,435 4,877
  Male householder,
      no wife present 		5,100 784 1,165 1,295 1,058 798 166
  Female householder,
      no husband present 		14,404 4,424 3,842 3,031 2,050 1,057 192
Nonfamily households 38,910 14,152 9,634 7,517 4,545 3,062 603
  Male householder 17,872 4,993 4,472 3,938 2,598 1,872 403
    Living alone 13,870 4,603 3,798 2,919 1,537 1,013 212
  Female householder 21,038 9,159 5,163 3,579 1,947 1,190 200
    Living alone 18,297 8,792 4,595 2,936 1,292 681 96

Age of householder
 
Under 65 years 		92,671 14,793 16,576 19,464 20,707 21,131 5,243
  15 to 24 years 6,554 2,083 1,826 1,541 758 345 68
  25 to 34 years 19,225 3,120 4,071 4,515 4,404 3,115 560
  35 to 44 years 22,448 2,877 3,627 4,746 5,409 5,789 1,342
  45 to 54 years 24,536 3,225 3,679 4,777 5,954 6,902 1,852
  55 to 64 years 19,909 3,487 3,374 3,885 4,182 4,981 1,421
65 years and over 24,113 8,567 6,785 3,890 2,650 2,220 596
  65 to 74 years 12,284 3,383 3,171 2,404 1,765 1,560 437
  75 years and over 11,829 5,184 3,614 1,486 885 660 159
Mean age of householder 50 54 51 47 47 48 50
Aggregate age 5,787,051 1,271,214 1,192,704 1,103,501 1,094,290 1,125,341 289,783

Number of earners
 
No earners 		24,541 13,884 6,353 2,462 1,156 687 137
One earner 43,318 8,315 12,465 10,955 6,634 4,949 1,250
Two earners or more 48,924 1,161 4,543 9,936 15,568 17,716 4,452
  Two earners 39,093 1,093 4,123 8,599 12,456 12,821 3,157
  Three earners 7,352 62 362 1,134 2,440 3,353 829
  Four earners 2,480 5 58 203 672 1,542 465
Mean numbers of earners 1 0 1 1 2 2 2
Aggregate earners 158,663 10,923 22,645 33,449 42,948 48,698 12,399

Work experience of householder
 
Worked 		81,048 8,111 14,358 18,015 19,796 20,768 5,209
  Worked at full-time jobs 68,881 5,168 11,834 15,697 17,555 18,626 4,597
    50 weeks or more 59,353 3,201 9,608 13,658 15,731 17,155 4,260
    27 to 49 weeks 6,178 1,001 1,402 1,393 1,304 1,076 238
    26 weeks or less 3,350 966 823 646 520 394 99
  Worked at part-time jobs 12,167 2,942 2,525 2,318 2,240 2,142 612
    50 weeks or more 6,822 1,387 1,399 1,323 1,395 1,319 383
    27 to 49 weeks 2,616 651 568 474 472 451 132
    26 weeks or less 2,729 905 558 521 373 372 97
Did not work 35,736 15,249 9,003 5,338 3,562 2,583 630

Tenure
 
Owner occupied 		79,330 10,821 13,573 15,716 18,493 20,728 5,328
Renter occupied 35,845 11,839 9,389 7,364 4,713 2,540 493
Occupier paid no cash rent 1,608 700 399 274 151 84 18

 

  Horizontal Percents
Total Lowest fifth Second fifth Middle fifth Fourth fifth Highest fifth Top 5 percent
 
Number 		100.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 5.0
 
Lower limit 		(X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)

Type of residence
 
Inside metropolitan statistical areas 		100.0 18.9 19.4 19.9 20.2 21.6 5.6
  Inside principal cities 100.0 23.6 21.3 20.2 17.7 17.2 4.5
  Outside principal cities 100.0 15.8 18.1 19.7 21.9 24.5 6.3
Outside metropolitan statistical areas 5/ 100.0 25.5 23.1 20.5 19.0 11.9 2.1

Region
 
Northeast 		100.0 20.4 18.0 18.6 19.9 23.1 6.5
Midwest 100.0 19.2 20.4 20.8 21.2 18.4 4.2
South 100.0 21.7 21.3 20.3 19.0 17.7 4.1
West 100.0 17.8 19.0 19.8 20.5 22.9 6.1

Race and Hispanic Origin of householder
 
All Races 		100.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 5.0
White A.O.I.C. 100.0 18.2 19.8 20.1 20.8 21.2 5.4
  White alone 1/ 100.0 18.1 19.7 20.1 20.8 21.2 5.4
      White alone, not Hispanic 100.0 17.2 18.8 19.9 21.3 22.8 5.9
Black A.O.I.C. 100.0 32.7 23.0 19.6 14.9 9.8 1.7
  Black alone 2/ 100.0 32.8 23.0 19.7 14.9 9.6 1.7
  Asian A.O.I.C. 100.0 15.2 14.7 18.0 21.2 30.9 8.3
      Asian alone 3/ 100.0 15.3 14.5 18.0 21.1 31.1 8.4
Hispanic (of any race) 100.0 24.9 25.9 21.6 17.4 10.1 1.9

Type of household
 
Family households 		100.0 11.8 17.6 20.3 24.2 26.1 6.7
  Married-couple families 100.0 6.9 14.9 19.7 26.9 31.6 8.4
  Male householder,
      no wife present 		100.0 15.4 22.9 25.4 20.7 15.6 3.3
  Female householder,
      no husband present 		100.0 30.7 26.7 21.0 14.2 7.3 1.3
Nonfamily households 100.0 36.4 24.8 19.3 11.7 7.9 1.5
  Male householder 100.0 27.9 25.0 22.0 14.5 10.5 2.3
    Living alone 100.0 33.2 27.4 21.0 11.1 7.3 1.5
  Female householder 100.0 43.5 24.5 17.0 9.3 5.7 1.0
    Living alone 100.0 48.1 25.1 16.0 7.1 3.7 0.5

Age of householder
 
Under 65 years 		100.0 16.0 17.9 21.0 22.3 22.8 5.7
  15 to 24 years 100.0 31.8 27.9 23.5 11.6 5.3 1.0
  25 to 34 years 100.0 16.2 21.2 23.5 22.9 16.2 2.9
  35 to 44 years 100.0 12.8 16.2 21.1 24.1 25.8 6.0
  45 to 54 years 100.0 13.1 15.0 19.5 24.3 28.1 7.5
  55 to 64 years 100.0 17.5 16.9 19.5 21.0 25.0 7.1
65 years and over 100.0 35.5 28.1 16.1 11.0 9.2 2.5
  65 to 74 years 100.0 27.5 25.8 19.6 14.4 12.7 3.6
  75 years and over 100.0 43.8 30.5 12.6 7.5 5.6 1.3
Mean age of householder (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)
Aggregate age (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)

Number of earners
 
No earners 		100.0 56.6 25.9 10.0 4.7 2.8 0.6
One earner 100.0 19.2 28.8 25.3 15.3 11.4 2.9
Two earners or more 100.0 2.4 9.3 20.3 31.8 36.2 9.1
  Two earners 100.0 2.8 10.5 22.0 31.9 32.8 8.1
  Three earners 100.0 0.8 4.9 15.4 33.2 45.6 11.3
  Four earners 100.0 0.2 2.3 8.2 27.1 62.2 18.8
Mean numbers of earners (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)
Aggregate earners (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)

Work experience of householder
 
Worked 		100.0 10.0 17.7 22.2 24.4 25.6 6.4
  Worked at full-time jobs 100.0 7.5 17.2 22.8 25.5 27.0 6.7
    50 weeks or more 100.0 5.4 16.2 23.0 26.5 28.9 7.2
    27 to 49 weeks 100.0 16.2 22.7 22.6 21.1 17.4 3.9
    26 weeks or less 100.0 28.8 24.6 19.3 15.5 11.8 3.0
  Worked at part-time jobs 100.0 24.2 20.7 19.1 18.4 17.6 5.0
    50 weeks or more 100.0 20.3 20.5 19.4 20.4 19.3 5.6
    27 to 49 weeks 100.0 24.9 21.7 18.1 18.0 17.2 5.0
    26 weeks or less 100.0 33.2 20.5 19.1 13.7 13.6 3.5
Did not work 100.0 42.7 25.2 14.9 10.0 7.2 1.8

Tenure
 
Owner occupied 		100.0 13.6 17.1 19.8 23.3 26.1 6.7
Renter occupied 100.0 33.0 26.2 20.5 13.1 7.1 1.4
Occupier paid no cash rent 100.0 43.5 24.8 17.0 9.4 5.2 1.1

 

  Vertical Percents
Total Lowest fifth Second fifth Middle fifth Fourth fifth Highest fifth Top 5 percent
 
Number 		100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
 
Lower limit 		(X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)

Type of residence
 
Inside metropolitan statistical areas 		83.6 79.1 81.0 83.2 84.4 90.2 93.2
  Inside principal cities 33.5 39.4 35.6 33.9 29.6 28.7 29.8
  Outside principal cities 50.1 39.7 45.4 49.3 54.8 61.5 63.4
Outside metropolitan statistical areas 5/ 16.4 20.9 19.0 16.8 15.6 9.8 6.8

Region
 
Northeast 		18.3 18.6 16.5 17.0 18.2 21.1 23.7
Midwest 22.5 21.6 23.0 23.4 23.8 20.7 18.8
South 36.9 40.0 39.3 37.5 35.1 32.6 30.2
West 22.4 19.9 21.2 22.1 23.0 25.6 27.3

Race and Hispanic Origin of householder
 
All Races 		100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
White A.O.I.C. 82.5 75.1 81.6 83.0 85.7 87.3 88.9
  White alone 1/ 81.4 73.8 80.3 81.9 84.8 86.4 88.1
      White alone, not Hispanic 70.9 60.9 66.6 70.4 75.6 80.9 84.0
Black A.O.I.C. 12.8 21.0 14.7 12.6 9.6 6.3 4.3
  Black alone 2/ 12.5 20.4 14.3 12.3 9.3 6.0 4.1
  Asian A.O.I.C. 4.0 3.1 3.0 3.6 4.3 6.2 6.7
      Asian alone 3/ 3.8 2.9 2.8 3.5 4.1 6.0 6.4
Hispanic (of any race) 11.4 14.2 14.8 12.3 9.9 5.8 4.3

Type of household
 
Family households 		66.7 39.4 58.8 67.8 80.5 86.9 89.7
  Married-couple families 50.0 17.1 37.3 49.3 67.2 78.9 83.5
  Male householder,
      no wife present 		4.4 3.4 5.0 5.5 4.5 3.4 2.9
  Female householder,
      no husband present 		12.3 18.9 16.4 13.0 8.8 4.5 3.3
Nonfamily households 33.3 60.6 41.2 32.2 19.5 13.1 10.3
  Male householder 15.3 21.4 19.1 16.9 11.1 8.0 6.9
    Living alone 11.9 19.7 16.3 12.5 6.6 4.3 3.6
  Female householder 18.0 39.2 22.1 15.3 8.3 5.1 3.4
    Living alone 15.7 37.6 19.7 12.6 5.5 2.9 1.6

Age of householder
 
Under 65 years 		79.4 63.3 71.0 83.3 88.7 90.5 89.8
  15 to 24 years 5.6 8.9 7.8 6.6 3.2 1.5 1.2
  25 to 34 years 16.5 13.4 17.4 19.3 18.9 13.3 9.6
  35 to 44 years 19.2 12.3 15.5 20.3 23.2 24.8 23.0
  45 to 54 years 21.0 13.8 15.8 20.5 25.5 29.6 31.7
  55 to 64 years 17.0 14.9 14.4 16.6 17.9 21.3 24.3
65 years and over 20.6 36.7 29.0 16.7 11.3 9.5 10.2
  65 to 74 years 10.5 14.5 13.6 10.3 7.6 6.7 7.5
  75 years and over 10.1 22.2 15.5 6.4 3.8 2.8 2.7
Mean age of householder (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)
Aggregate age (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)

Number of earners
 
No earners 		21.0 59.4 27.2 10.5 4.9 2.9 2.3
One earner 37.1 35.6 53.4 46.9 28.4 21.2 21.4
Two earners or more 41.9 5.0 19.5 42.5 66.7 75.9 76.2
  Two earners 33.5 4.7 17.7 36.8 53.3 54.9 54.1
  Three earners 6.3 0.3 1.5 4.9 10.4 14.4 14.2
  Four earners 2.1 0.0 0.2 0.9 2.9 6.6 8.0
Mean numbers of earners (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)
Aggregate earners (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)

Work experience of householder
 
Worked 		69.4 34.7 61.5 77.1 84.8 88.9 89.2
  Worked at full-time jobs 59.0 22.1 50.7 67.2 75.2 79.7 78.7
    50 weeks or more 50.8 13.7 41.1 58.5 67.4 73.4 73.0
    27 to 49 weeks 5.3 4.3 6.0 6.0 5.6 4.6 4.1
    26 weeks or less 2.9 4.1 3.5 2.8 2.2 1.7 1.7
  Worked at part-time jobs 10.4 12.6 10.8 9.9 9.6 9.2 10.5
    50 weeks or more 5.8 5.9 6.0 5.7 6.0 5.6 6.6
    27 to 49 weeks 2.2 2.8 2.4 2.0 2.0 1.9 2.3
    26 weeks or less 2.3 3.9 2.4 2.2 1.6 1.6 1.7
Did not work 30.6 65.3 38.5 22.9 15.2 11.1 10.8

Tenure
 
Owner occupied 		67.9 46.3 58.1 67.3 79.2 88.7 91.3
Renter occupied 30.7 50.7 40.2 31.5 20.2 10.9 8.4
Occupier paid no cash rent 1.4 3.0 1.7 1.2 0.6 0.4 0.3

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