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African American Demographics |
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- 54% of the African American population lives in the South: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia are the states that have an African American population of 1 million or more.
- The number of U.S. residents that are African American is 36.4 million people.
- African Americans make up 12.9% of the population.
- The median age for the African American population is 29.5 years.
- There are 3.9 million African American married couples.
- Amongst the population of African American families, 2 million are married couples with their own children under 18.
- There are 11.8 million African American children under the age of 18 in the U.S.
- 41% of African American children live in a home maintained by their mother, while 34% live in a two-parent household and 13% reside with a grandparent.
- In the U.S., there are 823,500 black-owned businesses that generate $71 billion in revenues.
- African American owned businesses make up 4% of the nation's 20.8 million non-farm businesses and 27% of its 3 million minority owned farms.
- 38% of the nation’s African American owned businesses are owned by women, a higher percentage than any other minority ethnic group.
- 2.6 million African Americans are military veterans.
- 5.7 million African Americans own their own homes, which represents 46% of the African American population, this is a 1.4 million rise from the 1990 census.
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