Census Sketches Black Family
Black households are more likely than white households to be headed by a woman without a partner living at home, and the overall black population tends to be younger, the Census Bureau reports.
Data from 1999, which will be released today, show that while married couples head 47% of the country’s 8.4 million black households, about 45%, or 3.8 million families, are led by women without partners present.
Of the nation’s 53.1 million white households, only 13% are headed by women alone.
The statistics are being released in conjunction with Black History Month, which is February.
About 33% of the country’s 35 million blacks are 18 or younger, compared with 24% of America’s 193 million whites.
The statistics can be found at the Census Bureau’s Web site, https://www.census.gov.
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