TEXT TABLE 9
Number and Percent of Household Composition
Distributed by Type and County Subarea, San Mateo County, 1990
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| TYPES OF HOUSEHOLDS |
TOTAL COUNTY |
NORTH |
CENTRAL |
SOUTH |
COASTSIDE |
REMAINDER |
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| Total Households |
241,914 |
78,473 |
81,552 |
67,838 |
6,705 |
7,346 |
% County's
Households |
(100.0%) |
(32.4%) |
(33.7%) |
(28.1%) |
(2.8%) |
(3.0%) |
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| Family Households |
162,317 |
56,605 |
51,331 |
44,309 |
4,851 |
5,221 |
% Area
Households |
67.1% |
72.1% |
62.9% |
65.3% |
72.3% |
71.1% |
% County's
Households |
(100.0%) |
(34.9%) |
(31.6%) |
(27.3%) |
(3.0%) |
(3.2%) |
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| Female-headed Households |
23,721 |
9,401 |
6,628 |
6,818 |
499 |
375 |
% Family
Households |
14.6% |
16.6% |
12.9% |
15.4% |
10.3% |
7.2% |
% County's
Households |
(100.0%) |
(39.6%) |
(27.9%) |
(28.8%) |
(2.1%) |
(1.6%) |
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| Non-Related Households |
79,597 |
21,868 |
30,221 |
23,529 |
1,854 |
2,125 |
% Area
Households |
32.9% |
27.9% |
37.1% |
34.7% |
27.7% |
28.9% |
% County's
Households |
(100.0%) |
(27.5%) |
(37.9%) |
(29.6%) |
(2.3%) |
(2.7%) |
| Source: 1990 Census |
Non-related households
account for 32.9% of the total households in San Mateo County. Of all non-related
households in San Mateo, 37.9% are in the Central subarea. The North subarea has the
highest percentage of female-headed families. Of the 56,605 families in the North subarea,
16.6% are female-headed. This subarea also contains 39.6% of the county's female-headed
families.
B. Persons, Households and Families in Poverty
Of the total 639,086 persons for whom poverty status was determined in
San Mateo, 40,405 or 6.3% were living below poverty level. Of the total persons living
below the poverty level (40,405), cities and places having the largest number of persons
living below the poverty level included Daly City with 6,560 (16.2%); Redwood City, 5,328
(13.2%); San Mateo, 5,186 (12.8%); East Palo Alto 4,072 (10.1 %); North Fair Oaks, 2,333
(5.8%); and Menlo Park, 1,745 (4.3%).
East Palo Alto and North Fair Oaks have the largest percent of their
total population living below the poverty level with 17.9% and 17.1 % respectively.
Remaining cities and places percent of total population living below the poverty level
range from 0.4% (Highlands in Central County) to 8.7% (Brisbane in North County).
Of the total 242,348 households for whom poverty was determined, 5.6% were living below
the poverty level (see Text Table 10).
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