DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMSSION
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DELAWARE VALLEY DATA DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMSSION The Bourse Building, 21 South 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 |
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| 1990 CENSUS SELECTED POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS BY MUNICIPALITY |
NO. 41 APRIL 1992 |
This data bulletin contains selected population characteristics from Summary Tape File 1 (STF 1) of the 1990 Census. All information in this bulletin is derived from the 100% data compiled from the "short form" questionnaire filled out by all respondents to the 1990 Census.
The population characteristics are listed for each municipality in an expanded four-state, 28-county area. These 28 counties include the 9 DVRPC member counties as well as the 9 surrounding counties, and comprise the DVRPC 1990 census data service area. (See Map 1 on page 4.)
The following variables were selected for this summary:
The Census Bureau defines the above population variables as follows:
Family - "A family consists of a householder and one or more other persons living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption. All persons in a household who are related to the householder are regarded as members of his or her family."
Household - "A household includes all the persons who occupy a housing unit. A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied (or if vacant, is intended for occupancy) as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants live and eat separately from any other persons in the building and which have direct access from the outside of the building or through a common hall. The occupants may be a single family, one person living alone, two or more families living together, or any other group of related or unrelated persons who share living arrangements. In 100-percent tabulations, the count of households or householders always equals the count of occupied housing units."
Race - "The concept of race as used by the Census Bureau reflects self-identification; it does not denote any clear-cut scientific definition of biological stock. The data for race represent self-classification by people according to the race with which they most closely identify. Furthermore, it is recognized that the categories of the race item include both racial and national origin or socio-cultural groups."
Hispanic Origin - "Persons of Hispanic origin are those who classified themselves in one of the specific Hispanic origin categories listed on the questionnaire - `Mexican,' `Puerto Rican,' or `Cuban' - as well as those who indicated that they were of `other Spanish/Hispanic' origin. Persons of `other Spanish/Hispanic' origin are those whose origins are from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Central or South America, or the Dominican Republic, or they are persons of Hispanic origin identifying themselves generally as Spanish, Spanish-American, Hispanic, Hispano, Latino, and so on.
"Origin can be viewed as the ancestry, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. Persons of Hispanic origin can be of any race."
Family Household - A family household is defined as "a household including a family. A family household may also include non-relatives living with the family."
Non-family Household - A non-family household is defined as "a household consisting of a person living alone or of a householder living with other unrelated individuals."
Group Quarters - "All persons not living in households are classified by the Census Bureau as living in group quarters. Two general categories of persons in group quarters are recognized: (1) institutionalized persons and (2) other persons in group quarters (also referred to as `noninstitutional group quarters')."
Institutionalized persons includes those persons in correctional institutions, nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, military hospitals, juvenile institutions, and schools and/or hospitals for the chronically ill, mentally retarded, physically handicapped, and drug and alcohol dependent. Noninstitutionalized persons includes those persons in rooming houses, group homes, religious group quarters, college dormitories, military quarters, agriculture workers dormitories, emergency shelters, and other non-household living quarters.
Table 1, which begins on page 5, lists population data for each municipality in the 28 counties, and includes the following totals:
Comparable data on population characteristics from the 1980 Census are summarized in DVRPC's Data Bulletin No. 25. To obtain a copy of Data Bulletin No. 25 or other demographic and economic information, please contact the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission at (215) 592-1800.
Download data files in Tab-delimited format (for spreadsheets and databases)
Table 1: 1990 Census of Population - Population Characteristics
Table 1a: 1990 Census of Population - Population Characteristics (County Totals)
Table 1b: 1990 Census of Population - Population Characteristics (State and Region Totals)