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Fun Facts: Us Census Bureau Releases American Community Survey, 2006
How does Massachusetts compare with the rest of the United States in these following relevant and irrelevant ways?
Percentage of people living in Massachusetts who were born here: 74.6%
US average: 67.4%
Mean commute time, Massachusetts: 26.6 minutes
US average: 25.0 minutes
Median age of men's first marriage, Massachusetts: 29.6 years old (2nd oldest)
Median age of men's first marriage, US: 27.5 years old
Median age of women's first marriage, Massachusetts: 27.7 years old (3rd oldest)
Median age of women's first marriage, US: 25.9 years old
Percent of renters spending more than 30% of income on rent, Massachusetts: 48.6% (3rd highest)
Percent of renters spending more than 30% of income on rent, US: 46.0%
Percent of people age 5 or older who speak a language other than English, Massachusetts: 20.2% (California is 42.5%, New Mexico is 36.5%, Texas is 33.8% ...)
Percent of people age 5 or older who speak a language other than English, US: 19.7%
Percent of people 25 or older with an advanced degree, Massachusetts: 15.6% (third highest, after MD and DC)
Percent of people 25 or older with an advanced degree, US: 9.9%
Percent of homes that are mobile homes, Massachusetts: 0.9% (49th in nation, over 14% of Wyoming's homes are mobile homes ...)
Percent of homes that are mobile homes, US: 7.3%
Also, Massachusetts has the fourth highest median family income, $74,463; 2.5% of Massachusetts households receive cash public assistance (21st in nation, almost equal to US average of 2.4% of households); 12.4% of Massachusetts children are "below the poverty level" (42nd in the nation), 18.3% of US children are "below the poverty level; and, 0.8% of the Massachusetts housing stock was built after 2005 (45th in nation), US average was 1.8%, and Nevada was 1 with 5.2%.
Source: US Census Bureau, by way of The New York Times
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