Community Assessment

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Community Assessment

• By Patricio Merino

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Lawrenceville

• Population (year 2000) 22.397
• Rate of growth 28.82
• Density 2,184 people per square mile

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Lawrenceville

• Cultural characteristics
• Races in Lawrenceville
• White Non-Hispanic (69.3)
• Black (13.6)
• Hispanic (12.1)
• Other race (4.5)
• Two or more races (2.4)
• Other Asian (1.0)
• Vietnamese (0.8)
• American Indian (0.7)
• (Total can be greater than 100 because Hispanics
  could be counted in other races)

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Lawrenceville

• Cultural characteristics
• For population 25 years and over in Lawrenceville
• High school or higher 73.9
• Bachelor's degree or higher 19.1
• Graduate or professional degree 5.1
• Unemployed 4.4
• Mean travel time to work 29.6 minutes

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Lawrenceville

• Cultural characteristics
• 3,995 residents are foreign born (8.9 Latin
  America, 4.8 Europe, 2.5 Asia).
• Daytime population change due to commuting
  17,697 (79.0)
• Workers who live and work in this city 2,913
  (27.4)

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Lawrenceville

• Cultural characteristics
• People in group quarters in Lawrenceville
• 1146 people in local jails and other confinement
  facilities (including police lockups)
• 310 people in nursing homes
• 84 people in other nonhousehold living situations
  
• 51 people in homes for the physically handicapped
  
• 37 people in other noninstitutional group
  quarters
• 22 people in homes or halfway houses for
  drug/alcohol abuse
• 6 people in unknown juvenile institutions
• 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded

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Lawrenceville

• Cultural characteristics
• Average household size 2.8 people
• Percentage of family households 71.0
• Percentage of households with unmarried partners
  5.0
• Likely homosexual households (counted as
  self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner
  households)
• Lesbian couples 0.2 of all households
• Gay men 0.4 of all households

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Lawrenceville

• Age and Gender
• Males 11,478   (51.2)
• Females 10,919   (48.8)
• Median resident age   32.3 years
• In the city the population is spread out with
  26.4 under the age of 18, 11.0 from 18 to 24,
  35.3 from 25 to 44, 18.2 from 45 to 64, and
  9.1 who are 65 years of age or older. For every
  100 females there are 105.1 males. For every 100
  females age 18 and over, there are 103.9 males.

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Lawrenceville

• Marital Status
• For population 15 years and over
• Never married 27.0
• Now married 51.5
• Separated 2.8
• Widowed 6.7
• Divorced 12.1

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Lawrenceville

• Socioeconomic Status
• The median income for a household in the city is
  63,999. Males have a median income of 34,263
  versus 26,903 for females. The per capita income
  for the city is 19,649. 11.5 of the population
  and 8.7 of families are below the poverty line.
  Out of the total people living in poverty, 16.0
  are under the age of 18 and 11.9 are 65 or older.