Saw this today on Metafilter—a nice place to compare statistics and see photos of cities all over the country. I pulled up the stats for all the place I’ve lived in over the last 40 years to see how they stacked up against each other and my current residence, AA, MI. Sorta kinda interesting. (All stats from 2000):
Roswell, Chaves County, NM (Dec-63—Jun-71)
28.9 square miles
Pop: 45,293 (Male/Female: 48.2%/51.8%)
50.9% white/non-hispanic
10.8% foreign-born
Median Resident Age (MRA): 35.2 years
Median Household Income (MHI): $27,252
Median House Value (MHV): $60,100
HS Grads: 73.8%
College Grads (BS/BA): 16.9%
Graduate Degrees: 6.8%
Unemployed: 9.7%
Married: 52.7%
Never Married: 24.1%
Divorced: 11.8%
Widowed: 9.1%
Commute: 16.2 minutes
Clovis, Curry County, NM (Jun-71—Jun-74)
22.4 square miles
Pop: 32,667 (M/F: 48.0%/52.0%)
55.6% white/non-hispanic
5.5% foreign-born
MRA: 33.1 years
MHI: $28,878
MHV: $64,500
HS Grads: 77.5%
BS/BA: 15.7%
Grad: 5.9%
Unemployed: 6.9%
Married: 54.8%
Never Married: 22.9%
Divorced: 12.6%
Widowed: 7.6%
Commute: 15.3 minutes
Duncan, Stephens County, OK (Jun-74—Apr-94)
38.8 square miles
Pop: 22,505 (M/F: 47.3%/52.7%)
83.3% white/non-hispanic
2.6% foreign-born
MRA: 40.3 years
MHI: $30,373
MHV: $59,000
HS Grads: 76.8%
BS/BA: 19.7%
Grad: 5.8%
Unemployed: 7.2%
Married: 61.7%
Never Married: 16.5%
Divorced: 10.1%
Widowed: 9.6%
Commute: 18.7 minutes
Plano, Collin County, TX(Apr-94—Sep-96)
71.6 square miles
Pop: 222,030 (M/F: 49.8%/50.2%)
72.8% white/non-hispanic
17.1% foreign-born
MRA: 34.1 years
MHI: $78,722
MHV: $162,300
HS Grads: 93.9%
BS/BA: 53.3%
Grad: 17.6%
Unemployed: 3.1%
Married: 66.5%
Never Married: 21.1%
Divorced: 8.4%
Widowed: 2.7%
Commute: 27.5 minutes
Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, CA (Sep-96—Feb-98)
7.1 square miles
Pop: 32,837 (M/F: 48.5/51.5%)
76.6% white/non-hispanic
14% foreign-born
MRA: 39.0 years
MHI: $67,489
MHV: $294,000
HS Grads: 93.1%
BS/BA: 42.5%
Grad: 13.1%
Unemployed: 3.7%
Married: 53.3%
Never Married: 26%
Divorced: 12.7%
Widowed: 6.9%
Commute: 30.3 minutes
Highlands Ranch, Douglas County, CO (Feb-98—Nov-98)
23.5 square miles
Pop: 70,931 (M/F: 49.5%/50.5%)
6.7% foreign-born
MRA: 32.2 years
MHI: $86,792
MHV: $235,100
HS Grads: 97.8%
BS/BA: 59%
Grad: 17.2%
Unemployed: 1.8%
Married: 73.1%
Never Married: 17.6%
Divorced: 6.9%
Widowed: 1.8%
Commute: 27.5 minutes
San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA (Nov-98—Aug-03)
46.7 square miles
Pop: 776,733 (M/F: 50.8%/49.2%)
43.6% white/non-hispanic
36.8% foreign-born
MRA: 36.5 years
MHI: $55,221
MHV: $396,400
HS Grads: 81.2%
BS/BA: 45.0%
Grad: 16.4%
Unemployed: 4.6%
Married: 38.7%
Never Married: 44.8%
Divorced: 8.6%
Widowed: 6.1%
Commute: 30.7 minutes
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, MI (Aug-03— )
27.0 square miles
Pop: 114,024 (M/F: 49.4%/50.6%)
72.8% white/non-hispanic
16.6% foreign-born
MRA: 28.1 years
MHI: $46,299
MHV: $181,400
HS Grads: 95.7%
BS/BA: 69.3%
Grad: 39.4%
Unemployed: 4.2%
Married: 38.5%
Never Married: 50.3%
Divorced: 7.1%
Widowed: 3.2%
Commute: 18.8 minutes
Even though AA is a place that prides itself on its ‘diversity,’ seems to me that there’s far greater diversity in my birthplace, Roswell. Heck, we even got aliens there …
