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Somerville, Massachusetts Neighborhood Profile

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Over 77,478 people live in Somerville, Massachusetts, thirty-seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty males, thirty-nine thousand, seven hundred and forty-eight females. The median age for Somerville, Massachusetts is thirty-one point one years old. The number of households is 31,555. The number of affordable housing units in Somerville, Massachusetts is nine hundred and twenty-two compared to 10,424,540 nationwide. The number of Somerville, Massachusetts owner-occupied units is thirty-one thousand, five hundred and fifty-five compared to one hundred and five million, four hundred and eighty thousand, one hundred and one in the U.S. The median value of Somerville, Massachusetts housing units currently stands at two hundred and fourteen thousand, one hundred dollars. In terms of Somerville, Massachusetts income characteristics, the median household income for Somerville, Massachusetts is forty-six thousand, three hundred and fifteen dollars dollars.

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	Somerville, Massachusetts	United States
Total population	77,478	281,421,906
State	Massachusetts
City	Somerville

Somerville, Massachusetts Population

	Somerville, Massachusetts	%, Somerville, Massachusetts	United States
Male	37,730	48.7%	49.06%
Female	39,748	51.3%	50.94%
Median age (years)	31.1		35.3
18 years and over	65,983	85.16%	74.31%
21 years and over	62,285	80.39%	69.97%
62 years and over	9,379	12.11%	14.66%
65 years and over	8,099	10.45%	12.43%

	Somerville, Massachusetts	%, Somerville, Massachusetts	United States
White	59,635	76.97%	75.14%
Black or African American	5,035	6.5%	12.32%
Asian	4,990	6.44%	3.64%
Some other race	4,061	5.24%	5.46%
Two or more races	3,757	4.85%	2.43%

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Somerville, Massachusetts Housing

	Somerville, Massachusetts	%, Somerville, Massachusetts	United States
Total housing units	32,477		115,904,641
- Vacant housing units	922	2.84%	8.99%
- Occupied housing units	31,555	97.16%	91.01%
- - Owner-occupied housing units	9,656	29.73%	60.24%
- - Renter-occupied housing units	21,899	67.43%	30.77%

	Somerville, Massachusetts	%, Somerville, Massachusetts	United States
YEAR HOUSEHOLDER MOVED INTO UNIT
1999 to March 2000	7,767	24.61%	19.95%
1995 to 1998	10,558	33.46%	28.9%
1990 to 1994	4,110	13.02%	16.07%
1980 to 1989	3,111	9.86%	15.58%
1970 to 1979	2,216	7.02%	9.86%
1969 or earlier	3,793	12.02%	9.65%

	Somerville, Massachusetts	%, Somerville, Massachusetts	United States
Total households	31,555		105,480,101
Family households (families)	14,668	46.48%	68.06%
Nonfamily households	16,887	53.52%	31.94%

	Somerville, Massachusetts	United States
VALUE
Less than $50,000	23	5,457,817
$50,000 to $99,999	66	16,778,971
$100,000 to $149,999	361	13,110,384
$150,000 to $199,999	747	8,075,904
$200,000 to $299,999	1,035	6,583,049
$300,000 to $499,999	429	3,584,108
$500,000 to $999,999	45	1,308,116
$1,000,000 or more	6	313,759
Median (dollars)	214,100	119,600

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Somerville, Massachusetts Education

	Somerville, Massachusetts	%, Somerville, Massachusetts	United States
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school	20,591		76,632,927
Nursery school, preschool	824	4.0%	6.47%
Kindergarten	577	2.8%	5.43%
Elementary school (grades 1-8)	4,952	24.05%	43.92%
High school (grades 9-12)	2,786	13.53%	21.38%
College or graduate school	11,452	55.62%	22.81%

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Somerville, Massachusetts Economy

	Somerville, Massachusetts	%, Somerville, Massachusetts	United States
Population 16 years and over	67,455		217,168,077
In labor force	47,656	70.65%	63.92%
- Civilian labor force	47,628	70.61%	63.39%
- - Employed	45,967	68.14%	59.73%
- - Unemployed	1,661	2.46%	3.66%
- - - Percent of civilian labor force	3.5		5.8
- Armed Forces	28	0.04%	0.53%
Not in labor force	19,799	29.35%	36.08%
Females 16 years and over	34,871	51.7%	51.66%
In labor force	23,036	34.15%	29.72%
- Civilian labor force	23,027	34.14%	29.65%
- - Employed	22,280	33.03%	27.92%
Own children under 6 years	3,733	5.53%	10.05%
All parents in family in labor force	2,241		12,787,501
With earnings	26,525	39.32%	39.12%
- Mean earnings (dollars)	58,204		56,604
With Social Security income	6,106	9.05%	12.47%
- Mean Social Security income (dollars)	10,175		11,320
With Supplemental Security Income	1,288	1.91%	2.13%
- Mean Supplemental Security Income (dollars)	6,239		6,320
With public assistance income	705	1.05%	1.67%
- Mean public assistance income (dollars)	3,095		3,032
With retirement income	3,384	5.02%	8.13%
- Mean retirement income (dollars)	11,820		17,376

	Somerville, Massachusetts	%, Somerville, Massachusetts	United States
INCOME IN 1999
Households	31,535		105,539,122
Less than $10,000	3,097	9.82%	9.54%
$10,000 to $14,999	1,810	5.74%	6.31%
$15,000 to $24,999	3,055	9.69%	12.83%
$25,000 to $34,999	3,453	10.95%	12.81%
$35,000 to $49,999	5,507	17.46%	16.53%
$50,000 to $74,999	6,729	21.34%	19.46%
$75,000 to $99,999	3,694	11.71%	10.23%
$100,000 to $149,999	3,003	9.52%	7.72%
$150,000 to $199,999	684	2.17%	2.2%
$200,000 or more	503	1.6%	2.37%
Median household income (dollars)	46,315		41,994

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The data is taken from www.census.gov reports.