Dover Delaware Economic and demographic information


Dover Delaware Economic and demographic information

Dover Delaware Economic information

	Summary - Age, Sex, Race
More Census Data:
Social Demographics - School, Marital, Ancestry	Economic - Employment, Income, Industry	Housing - Occupancy, Mortgage, Rent

Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics: 2000

Geographic Area: Dover city

Subject	Number	Percent		Subject	Number	Percent

EMPLOYMENT STATUS			INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over	25,596	100.0	Households	12,460	100.0
In labor force	16,320	63.8	Less than $10,000	1,272	10.2
Civilian labor force	15,318	59.8	$10,000 to $14,999	984	7.9
Employed	14,174	55.4	$15,000 to $24,999	1,836	14.7
Unemployed	1,144	4.5	$25,000 to $34,999	1,550	12.4
Percent of civilian labor force	7.5	(X)	$35,000 to $49,999	2,191	17.6
Armed Forces	1,002	3.9	$50,000 to $74,999	2,319	18.6
Not in labor force	9,276	36.2	$75,000 to $99,999	1,203	9.7
			$100,000 to $149,999	829	6.7
Females 16 years and over	13,836	100.0	$150,000 to $199,999	192	1.5
In labor force	7,980	57.7	$200,000 or more	84	0.7
Civilian labor force	7,778	56.2	Median household income (dollars)	38,669	(X)
Employed	7,238	52.3

Own children under 6 years	2,396	100.0	With earnings	9,938	79.8
All parents in family in labor force	1,571	65.6	Mean earnings (dollars)¹	47,554	(X)
			With Social Security income	3,182	25.5
COMMUTING TO WORK			Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹	10,757	(X)
Workers 16 years and over	14,675	100.0	With Supplemental Security Income	543	4.4
Car, truck, or van -- drove alone	11,275	76.8	Mean Supplemental Security Income (dollars)¹	5,813	(X)
Car, truck, or van -- carpooled	1,910	13.0	With public assistance income	455	3.7
Public transportation (including taxicab)	154	1.0	Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹	2,862	(X)
Walked	724	4.9	With retirement income	2,777	22.3
Other means	218	1.5	Mean retirement income (dollars)¹	16,491	(X)
Worked at home	394	2.7
Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹	19.0	(X)
			Families	7,468	100.0
Employed civilian population 16 years and over	14,174	100.0	Less than $10,000	554	7.4
OCCUPATION			$10,000 to $14,999	376	5.0
Management, professional, and related occupations	5,014	35.4	$15,000 to $24,999	836	11.2
Service occupations	2,575	18.2	$25,000 to $34,999	782	10.5
Sales and office occupations	4,089	28.8	$35,000 to $49,999	1,295	17.3
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	44	0.3	$50,000 to $74,999	1,659	22.2
Construction, extraction, and maintenance occupations	999	7.0	$75,000 to $99,999	1,039	13.9
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	1,453	10.3	$100,000 to $149,999	691	9.3
			150,000 to $199,999	164	2.2
			$200,000 or more	72	1.0
INDUSTRY			Median family income (dollars)	48,338	(X)
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining	89	0.6	Per capita income (dollars)¹	19,445	(X)
Construction	707	5.0	Median earnings (dollars):
Manufacturing	1,276	9.0	Male full-time, year-round workers	34,824	(X)
Wholesale trade	316	2.2	Female full-time, year-round workers	26,061	(X)
Retail trade	1,989	14.0	______________________	_______	_______
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities	526	3.7	Subject	Number below poverty level	Percent below poverty level
Information	293	2.1	______________________	_______	_______
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental and leasing	1,002	7.1	POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
Professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services	1,054	7.4	Families	861	11.5
Educational, health and social services	3,322	23.4	With related children under 18 years	738	17.7
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services	1,216	8.6	With related children under 5 years	440	24.9
Other services (except public administration)	454	3.2
Public administration	1,930	13.6	Families with female householder, no husband present	559	27.0
			With related children under 18 years	524	33.7
			With related children under 5 years	317	45.4
CLASS OF WORKER			Individuals	4,041	13.8
Private wage and salary workers	9,527	67.2	18 years and over	2,559	11.7
Government workers	4,028	28.4	65 years and over	390	10.4
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business	619	4.4	Related children under 18 years	1,460	19.6
Unpaid family workers	0	0.0	Related children 5 to 17 years	893	16.8
			Unrelated individuals 15 years and over	1,341	20.0


Date: December 30, 2004

-Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.
¹ If the denominator of a mean value or per capita value is less than 30, then that value is calculated using a rounded aggregate in the numerator. See text.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.

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