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Total population: 107,037 (All urban)

Waterbury, Connecticut Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 46,827 (42,622 occupied: 20,299 owner occupied, 22,323 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	52%
State:	33%

Housing density: 1639 houses/condos per square mile

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Median contract rent in 2007: $708 (lower quartile is $576, upper quartile is $801)

Housing units in Waterbury with a mortgage: 10,256 (1,448 second mortgage, 1,024 home equity loan, 33 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,156

Waterbury,CT index of house prices

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $165,300 (it was $97,800 in 2000)

Waterbury:	$165,300
Connecticut:	$309,200

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $134,000 - $212,700

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $183,779
Here: $183,779
State: $418,487

Townhouses or other attached units: $114,719
Here: $114,719
State: $295,130

In 2-unit structures: $171,674
Here: $171,674
State: $295,498

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $218,127
Here: $218,127
State: $253,799

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $102,204
Here: $102,204
State: $220,717

Median year house/condo built: 1956

Median year apartment built: 1966

Household type by relationship

Households: 105,050

In family households: 86,773 (16,455 male householders, 10,550 female householders)
17,183 spouses, 33,316 children (31,219 natural, 676 adopted, 1,421 stepchildren), 2,154 grandchildren, 1,204 brothers or sisters, 1,284 parents, 1,815 other relatives, 2,812 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 18,277 (6,991 male householders (5,807 living alone)), 8,659 female householders (7,590 living alone)), 2,627 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 2,221 (1,609 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 10,576 2-persons, 6,809 3-persons, 5,312 4-persons, 2,670 5-persons, 973 6-persons, 665 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 13,397 1-person, 2,004 2-persons, 190 3-persons, 32 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons.

13,568 married couples with children.
11,584 single-parent households (1,771 men, 9,813 women).

69.9% of residents of Waterbury speak English at home.
18.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
10.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (55% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (44% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (60% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).

Foreign born population: 12,950 (12.1%)
(47.2% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	5.7
State:	6.4

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	4.2
State:	4.0

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Waterbury, Connecticut:
	1 room: 15 2 rooms: 102 3 rooms: 399 4 rooms: 2,423 5 rooms: 5,772 6 rooms: 6,033 7 rooms: 3,141 8 rooms: 1,300 9 or more rooms: 1,114

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Waterbury, Connecticut:
	1 room: 1,078 2 rooms: 1,594 3 rooms: 3,878 4 rooms: 7,007 5 rooms: 5,609 6 rooms: 2,358 7 rooms: 535 8 rooms: 132 9 or more rooms: 132

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 167
1995 to 1998: 825
1990 to 1994: 1,913
1980 to 1989: 6,643
1970 to 1979: 6,573
1960 to 1969: 4,850
1950 to 1959: 6,864
1940 to 1949: 5,040
1939 or earlier: 13,952

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Waterbury:
	no bedroom: 32 1 bedroom: 747 2 bedrooms: 6,311 3 bedrooms: 10,167 4 bedrooms: 2,417 5 or more bedrooms: 625

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Waterbury:
	no bedroom: 1,147 1 bedroom: 5,868 2 bedrooms: 10,220 3 bedrooms: 4,357 4 bedrooms: 635 5 or more bedrooms: 96

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Waterbury in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 1,335 1 vehicle: 7,226 2 vehicles: 8,411 3 vehicles: 2,642 4 vehicles: 534 5 or more vehicles: 151

Cars and other vehicles available in Waterbury in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 6,959 1 vehicle: 10,548 2 vehicles: 4,121 3 vehicles: 550 4 vehicles: 92 5 or more vehicles: 53

Waterbury rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Waterbury:

Less than $100: 415 people
$100 to $149: 208
$150 to $199: 605
$200 to $249: 542
$250 to $299: 479
$300 to $349: 471
$350 to $399: 465
$400 to $449: 460
$450 to $499: 997
$500 to $549: 1,045
$550 to $599: 1,092
$600 to $649: 1,708
$650 to $699: 1,869
$700 to $749: 2,031
$750 to $799: 2,000
$800 to $899: 2,979
$900 to $999: 1,942
$1,000 to $1,249: 1,448
$1,250 to $1,499: 445
$1,500 to $1,999: 67
$2,000 or more: 42
No cash rent: 672

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 3,231 1990 to 1994: 1,911 1985 to 1989: 1,847 1980 to 1984: 947 1975 to 1979: 794 1970 to 1974: 910 1970 to 1974: 1,089 1965 to 1969: 2,221

Waterbury, CT Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 71.3%
Number of people working at home: 602 (1.4% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 1124
5 to 9 minutes: 5410
10 to 14 minutes: 9235
15 to 19 minutes: 7711
20 to 24 minutes: 6278
25 to 29 minutes: 1932
30 to 34 minutes: 4861
35 to 39 minutes: 1206
40 to 44 minutes: 1328
45 to 59 minutes: 2578
60 to 89 minutes: 1281
90 or more minutes: 710

Waterbury mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 34,286 (77%)
Carpooled: 6,132 (14%)
Bus or trolley bus: 1,513 (3%)
Subway or elevated: 8 (0%)
Railroad: 43 (0%)
Taxi: 45 (0%)
Motorcycle: 26 (0%)
Bicycle: 32 (0%)
Walked: 1,196 (3%)
Other means: 373 (1%)
Worked at home: 602 (1%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 5694
$10,000 to $14,999: 3783
$15,000 to $19,999: 3211
$20,000 to $24,999: 3324
$25,000 to $29,999: 2912
$30,000 to $34,999: 2679
$35,000 to $39,999: 2540
$40,000 to $44,999: 2352
$45,000 to $49,999: 2045
$50,000 to $59,999: 3418
$60,000 to $74,999: 4158
$75,000 to $99,999: 3508
$100,000 to $124,999: 1420
$125,000 to $149,999: 878
$150,000 to $199,999: 406
$200,000 or more: 327

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 33478

Italian: 21739

Irish: 8081

French (except Basque): 3807

German: 2477

English: 2280

French Canadian: 2259

Polish: 2183

United States or American: 2138

Albanian: 2117

Lithuanian: 1749

Portuguese: 1720

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 1648

Subsaharan African:: 1522

Jamaican: 1031

African: 701

Arab:: 700

Cape Verdean: 665

Scottish: 555

Russian: 520

Greek: 473

Lebanese: 463

Brazilian: 398

Scotch-Irish: 352

Swedish: 330

Canadian: 326

Hungarian: 291

West Indian: 279

Guyanese: 265

Dutch: 163

Norwegian: 154

Ukrainian: 132

Yugoslavian: 130

British: 127

Nigerian: 106

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 99

Macedonian: 94

Haitian: 76

Barbadian: 75

British West Indian: 74

Swiss: 68

Austrian: 67

Danish: 65

Afghan: 55

Czech: 54

Other Arab: 52

Arab/Arabic: 52

Slovak: 51

Egyptian: 49

Romanian: 47

Moroccan: 44

Welsh: 44

Turkish: 43

European: 42

Czechoslovakian: 41

Armenian: 26

Other Subsaharan African: 22

Syrian: 22

Iranian: 21

Palestinian: 18

Ethiopian: 16

Celtic: 16

Pennsylvania German: 15

Israeli: 13

Latvian: 12

Scandinavian: 12

Eastern European: 12

Cypriot: 10

Croatian: 9

U.S. Virgin Islander: 8

Serbian: 7

Slavic: 7

Finnish: 7

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac: 7

Sudanese: 6

Ugandan: 6

Other West Indian: 6

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

Other Eastern Europe (13%)
Italy (13%)
Dominican Republic (11%)
Jamaica (6%)
Portugal (6%)
Guyana (4%)
Canada (3%)

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

This state: 68747
Northeast: 10400
Midwest: 931
South: 4393
West: 803

55% of Waterbury residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Connecticut.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 648
Nursery to 4th grade: 383
5th and 6th grade: 659
7th and 8th grade: 1,948
9th grade: 1,096
10th grade: 1,282
11th grade: 1,133
12th grade, no diploma: 1,849
High school graduate (or equivalency): 11,031
Less than 1 year of college: 1,802
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 3,731
Associate degree: 1,829
Bachelor's degree: 2,974
Master's degree: 1,198
Professional school degree: 335
Doctorate degree: 145

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 637
Nursery to 4th grade: 521
5th and 6th grade: 863
7th and 8th grade: 2,546
9th grade: 1,502
10th grade: 1,660
11th grade: 1,331
12th grade, no diploma: 1,683
High school graduate (or equivalency): 12,930
Less than 1 year of college: 2,202
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 4,086
Associate degree: 2,761
Bachelor's degree: 3,068
Master's degree: 1,396
Professional school degree: 500
Doctorate degree: 62

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 5.9%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 5.1%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 15.5%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 13.4%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 10.2%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 23.1%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 5.8%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 13.7%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 15.1%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 19.1%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 7.7%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 7.8%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 13.2%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 17.1%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $47,647
Black householders: $31,102
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $64,266
Asian householders: $43,493
Some other race householders: $20,138
Two or more races householders: $45,084
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $27,831

Waterbury household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Waterbury household income for Black householders

Waterbury household income for American Indian and Alaska Native householders

Waterbury household income for Some other race householders

Waterbury household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Waterbury marital status for males

Waterbury marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $173,412
Black or African American householders: $162,764
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $161,581
Asian householders: $188,793
Some other race householders: $146,707
Two or more races householders: $177,638
Hispanic or Latino householders: $149,412

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 16,920
One, attached: 1,986
Two: 5,271
3 or 4: 10,206
5 to 9: 4,565
10 to 19: 3,019
20 to 49: 1,829
50 or more: 2,972
Mobile homes: 33
Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 26

Median worth of mobile homes: $97,105

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 1%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 2%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Waterbury:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%) Utility gas (32%) Electricity (16%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Utility gas (38%) Electricity (35%) Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%) No fuel used (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,235

Here:	16.8%
Connecticut:	9.9%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 863

Here:	14.1%
Connecticut:	11.0%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,053

Here:	26.7%
Connecticut:	33.4%

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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