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Total population: 115,096 (Urban population: 114,127, Rural population: 969 (all nonfarm))

Houses: 32,422 (31,561 occupied: 20,193 owner occupied, 11,368 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	36%
State:	47%

Housing density: 529 houses/condos per square mile

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Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2007 in this state: $386,378.

Median contract rent in 2007: $1,030 (lower quartile is $764, upper quartile is $1,308)

Median rent asked for vacant for-rent units in 2007: $1,089

Median gross rent in Ramapo, NY in 2007: $1,136

Housing units in Ramapo with a mortgage: 12,701 (1,110 second mortgage, 1,604 home equity loan, 35 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,126

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $473,683 (it was $220,600 in 2000)

Ramapo:	$473,683
New York:	$311,000

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $357,527 - $632,549

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $553,251
Here: $553,251
State: $352,556

Townhouses or other attached units: $380,115
Here: $380,115
State: $476,263

In 2-unit structures: $438,755
Here: $438,755
State: $482,362

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $266,054
Here: $266,054
State: $552,553

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $167,339
Here: $167,339
State: $503,284

Mobile homes: $102,931
Here: $102,931
State: $40,766

Household type by relationship

Households: 106,276

In family households: 98,404 (19,653 male householders, 5,594 female householders)
20,870 spouses, 43,281 children (41,797 natural, 711 adopted, 773 stepchildren), 1,393 grandchildren, 1,368 brothers or sisters, 1,211 parents, 2,638 other relatives, 2,396 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 7,872 (2,539 male householders (2,032 living alone)), 3,822 female householders (3,316 living alone)), 1,511 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 2,629 (1,306 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 7,676 2-persons, 5,026 3-persons, 5,103 4-persons, 2,975 5-persons, 1,791 6-persons, 2,676 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 5,348 1-person, 821 2-persons, 113 3-persons, 34 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons.

30,122 married couples with children.
3,938 single-parent households (862 men, 3,076 women).

59.1% of residents of Ramapo speak English at home.
7.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (46% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
25.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (54% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
3.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (61% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
3.8% of residents speak other language at home (70% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).

Foreign born population: 24,848 (22.8%)
(47.1% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	7.4
State:	6.3

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	3.8
State:	3.6

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Ramapo, New York:
	1 room: 41 2 rooms: 180 3 rooms: 713 4 rooms: 1,150 5 rooms: 2,057 6 rooms: 2,881 7 rooms: 3,486 8 rooms: 4,687 9 or more rooms: 4,998

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Ramapo, New York:
	1 room: 551 2 rooms: 1,228 3 rooms: 3,003 4 rooms: 2,776 5 rooms: 1,326 6 rooms: 1,157 7 rooms: 567 8 rooms: 419 9 or more rooms: 341

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 411
1995 to 1998: 1,597
1990 to 1994: 1,313
1980 to 1989: 3,033
1970 to 1979: 7,129
1960 to 1969: 10,131
1950 to 1959: 3,891
1940 to 1949: 1,353
1939 or earlier: 3,564

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Ramapo:
	no bedroom: 41 1 bedroom: 1,120 2 bedrooms: 2,405 3 bedrooms: 6,194 4 bedrooms: 7,515 5 or more bedrooms: 2,918

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Ramapo:
	no bedroom: 597 1 bedroom: 4,528 2 bedrooms: 3,134 3 bedrooms: 1,570 4 bedrooms: 1,140 5 or more bedrooms: 399

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Ramapo in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 617 1 vehicle: 5,007 2 vehicles: 9,902 3 vehicles: 3,538 4 vehicles: 880 5 or more vehicles: 249

Cars and other vehicles available in Ramapo in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 3,392 1 vehicle: 4,933 2 vehicles: 2,510 3 vehicles: 392 4 vehicles: 28 5 or more vehicles: 113

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2007 in Ramapo, NY:

Less than $10,000: 11
$10,000 to $14,999: 6
$15,000 to $19,999: 6
$20,000 to $24,999: 16
$25,000 to $29,999: 20
$30,000 to $34,999: 26
$35,000 to $39,999: 30
$40,000 to $49,999: 81
$50,000 to $59,999: 79
$60,000 to $69,999: 134
$70,000 to $79,999: 134
$80,000 to $89,999: 80
$90,000 to $99,999: 76
$100,000 to $124,999: 224
$125,000 to $149,999: 193
$150,000 to $174,999: 178
$175,000 to $199,999: 246
$200,000 to $249,999: 714
$250,000 to $299,999: 1182
$300,000 to $399,999: 3880
$400,000 to $499,999: 4481
$500,000 to $749,999: 6326
$750,000 to $999,999: 2062
$1,000,000 or more: 1156

Ramapo rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Ramapo:

Less than $100: 117 people
$100 to $149: 106
$150 to $199: 215
$200 to $249: 269
$250 to $299: 187
$300 to $349: 120
$350 to $399: 85
$400 to $449: 142
$450 to $499: 135
$500 to $549: 147
$550 to $599: 227
$600 to $649: 295
$650 to $699: 278
$700 to $749: 251
$750 to $799: 251
$800 to $899: 965
$900 to $999: 1,433
$1,000 to $1,249: 3,241
$1,250 to $1,499: 1,382
$1,500 to $1,999: 1,307
$2,000 or more: 310
No cash rent: 501

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 5,620 1990 to 1994: 4,428 1985 to 1989: 3,887 1980 to 1984: 2,845 1975 to 1979: 1,721 1970 to 1974: 1,721 1970 to 1974: 1,062 1965 to 1969: 3,564

Percentage of workers working in this county: 55.4%
Number of people working at home: 1,570 (3.5% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 795
5 to 9 minutes: 4014
10 to 14 minutes: 6252
15 to 19 minutes: 6116
20 to 24 minutes: 5498
25 to 29 minutes: 1717
30 to 34 minutes: 3810
35 to 39 minutes: 874
40 to 44 minutes: 1620
45 to 59 minutes: 3982
60 to 89 minutes: 4975
90 or more minutes: 3171

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 29,926 (67%)
Carpooled: 5,809 (13%)
Bus or trolley bus: 3,400 (8%)
Subway or elevated: 95 (0%)
Railroad: 793 (2%)
Taxi: 571 (1%)
Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
Bicycle: 121 (0%)
Walked: 1,723 (4%)
Other means: 382 (1%)
Worked at home: 1,570 (4%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 2696
$10,000 to $14,999: 1477
$15,000 to $19,999: 1231
$20,000 to $24,999: 1365
$25,000 to $29,999: 1291
$30,000 to $34,999: 1289
$35,000 to $39,999: 1328
$40,000 to $44,999: 1383
$45,000 to $49,999: 1172
$50,000 to $59,999: 2459
$60,000 to $74,999: 3346
$75,000 to $99,999: 4139
$100,000 to $124,999: 3220
$125,000 to $149,999: 1887
$150,000 to $199,999: 1828
$200,000 or more: 1497

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 33374

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 9442

Italian: 8557

Haitian: 7458

United States or American: 6752

Irish: 6109

Polish: 4880

Russian: 4002

German: 3558

Hungarian: 2003

English: 1926

European: 1715

Jamaican: 1565

Eastern European: 1188

Subsaharan African:: 901

Israeli: 846

Ukrainian: 680

Romanian: 532

Austrian: 505

African: 485

Arab:: 469

French (except Basque): 395

Scottish: 384

Greek: 363

Dutch: 350

Lithuanian: 261

Nigerian: 240

Swedish: 218

Norwegian: 212

Iranian: 211

Scotch-Irish: 204

Czech: 179

West Indian: 176

British: 152

Brazilian: 150

Portuguese: 150

Albanian: 143

Swiss: 134

Guyanese: 134

Czechoslovakian: 133

Canadian: 124

Turkish: 121

Palestinian: 108

Yugoslavian: 101

Other Arab: 94

Barbadian: 90

Ghanian: 87

Latvian: 80

Arab/Arabic: 79

Armenian: 69

Slovak: 68

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 64

Slavic: 62

British West Indian: 57

Moroccan: 56

French Canadian: 54

Danish: 53

Kenyan: 44

Finnish: 42

Scandinavian: 39

Belgian: 38

Jordanian: 38

Lebanese: 36

Egyptian: 34

Australian: 33

Macedonian: 27

Welsh: 23

Cypriot: 22

Cape Verdean: 21

Belizean: 19

Maltese: 18

Croatian: 18

German Russian: 15

Syrian: 15

Icelander: 14

Ethiopian: 10

Liberian: 10

Iraqi: 9

Bulgarian: 9

U.S. Virgin Islander: 7

Estonian: 7

Other West Indian: 6

Soviet Union: 5

Northern European: 4

Other Subsaharan African: 4

Slovene: 3

Serbian: 2

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents (%):

Haiti (24%)
Guatemala (6%)
Philippines (5%)
India (5%)
Jamaica (4%)
Israel (4%)
Poland (4%)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 69385
Northeast: 7447
Midwest: 1310
South: 3168
West: 873

66% of Ramapo residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in New York.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 804
Nursery to 4th grade: 237
5th and 6th grade: 524
7th and 8th grade: 751
9th grade: 380
10th grade: 460
11th grade: 544
12th grade, no diploma: 1,833
High school graduate (or equivalency): 5,977
Less than 1 year of college: 1,367
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 4,041
Associate degree: 1,883
Bachelor's degree: 5,913
Master's degree: 2,842
Professional school degree: 1,487
Doctorate degree: 575

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 716
Nursery to 4th grade: 212
5th and 6th grade: 537
7th and 8th grade: 915
9th grade: 495
10th grade: 703
11th grade: 727
12th grade, no diploma: 1,744
High school graduate (or equivalency): 8,060
Less than 1 year of college: 1,813
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 3,805
Associate degree: 2,548
Bachelor's degree: 6,321
Master's degree: 3,584
Professional school degree: 664
Doctorate degree: 297

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 2.9%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 3.3%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 6.7%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 5.3%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 0.0%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 0.0%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 6.5%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 2.9%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 4.2%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 12.4%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 8.7%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 3.0%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 6.3%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 10.5%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $73,124
Black householders: $68,300
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $78,684
Asian householders: $87,101
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $97,781
Some other race householders: $48,243
Two or more races householders: $64,021
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $61,746

Ramapo household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Ramapo household income for Black householders

Ramapo household income for American Indian and Alaska Native householders

Ramapo household income for Asian householders

Ramapo household income for Some other race householders

Ramapo household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Ramapo marital status for males

Ramapo marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $514,265
Black or African American householders: $411,627
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $334,326
Asian householders: $461,658
Some other race householders: $397,240
Two or more races householders: $436,320
Hispanic or Latino householders: $460,799

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 18,041
One, attached: 2,237
Two: 2,198
3 or 4: 2,845
5 to 9: 2,003
10 to 19: 1,281
20 to 49: 1,265
50 or more: 2,523
Mobile homes: 29

Median worth of mobile homes: $64,819

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 1%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 1%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Ramapo:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Utility gas (92%) Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%) Electricity (3%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Utility gas (78%) Electricity (14%) Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%) No fuel used (1%) Other fuel (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9,068

Here:	53.8%
New York:	14.0%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4,145

Here:	49.3%
New York:	13.2%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2,624

Here:	51.8%
New York:	38.2%

School Enrollment by Level of School for Male Students

School Enrollment by Level of School for Female Students

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Residents with Employment Disability (Noninst.)

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