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Table 102.20. Number and percentage distribution of children under age 18 and under age 6, by living arrangement, race/ethnicity, and selected racial/ethnic subgroups: 2021
[Standard errors appear in parentheses]
Age and race/ethnicity Number of
 children (in thousands)
Percentage distribution of
 children
Percentage distribution of children, by living arrangement
Total Children living with parent(s) or related to householder1 All other children2
Married-couple household Female householder, no spouse present Male householder, no spouse present
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
All children under age 18                                        
Total 73,397 (23.5) 100.0   (†) 100.0   (†) 64.0   (0.11) 25.8   (0.10) 8.2   (0.06) 2.0   (0.03)
White 35,175 (20.5) 47.9   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 74.4   (0.14) 16.4   (0.11) 7.3   (0.08) 1.9   (0.04)
Black 9,311 (31.4) 12.7   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 34.7   (0.38) 54.1   (0.35) 8.7   (0.22) 2.5   (0.12)

Hispanic
18,849 (8.7) 25.7   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 56.6   (0.25) 31.4   (0.25) 10.1   (0.13) 2.0   (0.05)
Cuban 468 (13.1) 0.6   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 59.4   (1.20) 28.4   (1.16) 9.5   (0.77) 2.7   (0.51)
Dominican 710 (16.0) 1.0   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 43.0   (1.16) 46.1   (1.29) 8.9   (0.64) 1.9   (0.34)
Mexican 11,833 (40.4) 16.1   (0.05) 100.0   (†) 58.3   (0.30) 29.9   (0.30) 10.0   (0.17) 1.8   (0.06)
Puerto Rican 1,691 (21.5) 2.3   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 45.8   (0.80) 41.8   (0.80) 10.3   (0.51) 2.1   (0.18)
Spaniard 259 (9.3) 0.4   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 66.6   (1.74) 24.5   (1.61) 8.0   (0.97) 0.9   (0.23)
Central American 1,918 (29.1) 2.6   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 52.9   (0.74) 31.6   (0.71) 12.7   (0.43) 2.9   (0.24)
Costa Rican 44 (4.5) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 69.9   (4.71) 21.2   (4.38) 6.3 ! (2.11)   (†)
Guatemalan 579 (15.0) 0.8   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 53.8   (1.10) 29.7   (1.11) 13.0   (0.79) 3.5   (0.44)
Honduran 375 (13.6) 0.5   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 46.8   (1.49) 36.0   (1.64) 13.6   (0.93) 3.5   (0.60)
Nicaraguan 122 (7.0) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 58.4   (3.03) 31.3   (3.07) 8.3   (1.61) 2.0 ! (0.76)
Panamanian 62 (5.1) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 54.7   (3.61) 36.5   (3.57) 7.5 ! (2.49)   (†)
Salvadoran 728 (17.4) 1.0   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 53.4   (1.27) 30.9   (1.14) 13.5   (0.82) 2.3   (0.32)
Other Central American 9 (1.7) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 42.2   (8.57) 43.3   (9.18) 13.0 ! (6.46)   (†)
South American 1,001 (17.1) 1.4   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 68.7   (0.90) 23.1   (0.85) 7.0   (0.45) 1.2   (0.14)
Chilean 49 (4.6) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 74.8   (3.51) 17.3   (2.93) 6.6 ! (2.07)   (†)
Colombian 312 (9.7) 0.4   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 67.4   (1.57) 24.7   (1.63) 6.9   (0.63) 1.0   (0.22)
Ecuadorian 224 (9.0) 0.3   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 64.8   (2.08) 25.9   (1.74) 7.9   (1.01) 1.5   (0.33)
Peruvian 155 (6.8) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 66.6   (2.30) 24.3   (2.08) 7.9   (1.04) 1.2   (0.34)
Venezuelan 137 (7.0) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 74.6   (2.34) 19.6   (2.31) 4.4   (1.00) 1.4 ! (0.56)
Other South American 124 (6.9) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 72.7   (2.31) 18.5   (1.83) 7.9   (1.59)   (†)
Other Hispanic 968 (18.9) 1.3   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 55.5   (1.16) 31.4   (0.97) 10.4   (0.61) 2.7   (0.25)

Asian
3,626 (17.5) 4.9   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 84.6   (0.34) 10.3   (0.27) 4.1   (0.19) 1.0   (0.07)
Chinese3 692 (11.2) 0.9   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 81.9   (0.82) 12.6   (0.77) 4.2   (0.35) 1.4   (0.19)
Filipino 421 (10.8) 0.6   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 79.5   (0.88) 14.2   (0.82) 4.7   (0.48) 1.5   (0.23)
Japanese 63 (3.7) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 85.7   (2.06) 9.3   (1.70) 3.5   (0.91) 1.6 ! (0.56)
Korean 204 (6.9) 0.3   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 90.0   (0.94) 6.5   (0.73) 2.5   (0.50) 0.9 ! (0.32)
South Asian 1,308 (15.1) 1.8   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 93.1   (0.41) 4.2   (0.27) 2.3   (0.25) 0.4   (0.07)
Asian Indian 1,024 (13.3) 1.4   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 93.7   (0.42) 3.5   (0.27) 2.4   (0.27) 0.3   (0.07)
Bangladeshi 69 (5.0) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 96.0   (1.13) 2.2 ! (0.88) 1.5 ! (0.71)   (†)
Bhutanese 6 (1.4) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 79.4   (8.80)   (†)   (†)   (†)
Nepalese 54 (4.2) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 88.6   (2.51) 7.6   (2.28) 2.6 ! (1.10)   (†)
Pakistani 143 (6.8) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 89.1   (1.35) 8.3   (1.20) 1.9 ! (0.76) 0.7 ! (0.24)
Sri Lankan 12 (1.7) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 98.6   (1.04)   (†)   (†)   (†)
Southeast Asian 626 (12.3) 0.9   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 71.5   (1.07) 19.5   (0.93) 7.8   (0.66) 1.2   (0.20)
Burmese 73 (4.3) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 82.6   (3.01) 14.4   (2.76) 2.4 ! (1.11)   (†)
Cambodian 50 (4.0) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 49.5   (4.44) 36.0   (4.51) 12.0   (3.03) 2.4 ! (0.88)
Hmong 120 (5.5) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 58.0   (3.03) 24.4   (2.99) 16.5   (2.37) 1.1 ! (0.49)
Laotian 24 (2.8) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 62.8   (6.29) 24.4   (4.93) 12.2 ! (3.94)   (†)
Thai 18 (2.1) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 72.9   (5.68) 18.3   (4.52) 6.7 ! (2.75) 2.1 ! (1.02)
Vietnamese 327 (9.4) 0.4   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 77.2   (1.17) 16.4   (1.05) 5.1   (0.47) 1.3   (0.28)
Other Southeast Asian4 14 (1.9) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 90.3   (3.33) 9.1 ! (3.31)   (†)   (†)
Other Asian 314 (8.6) 0.4   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 84.1   (1.01) 9.7   (0.83) 4.9   (0.57) 1.3 ! (0.41)

Pacific Islander
140 (4.4) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 58.8   (2.82) 24.7   (2.24) 11.9   (1.87) 4.5 ! (1.39)
American Indian/Alaska Native 449 (6.9) 0.6   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 41.7   (1.02) 40.0   (1.04) 14.0   (0.92) 4.4   (0.36)
Some other race5 581 (17.0) 0.8   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 64.4   (1.24) 21.6   (1.19) 9.3   (0.88) 4.7   (0.53)

Two or more races
5,266 (38.6) 7.2   (0.05) 100.0   (†) 61.4   (0.34) 28.9   (0.27) 7.9   (0.21) 1.9   (0.12)
White and Black 1,734 (24.8) 2.4   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 44.8   (0.61) 44.2   (0.67) 8.4   (0.38) 2.6   (0.18)
White and Asian 1,205 (13.2) 1.6   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 81.4   (0.57) 12.0   (0.45) 5.9   (0.31) 0.7   (0.09)
White and American Indian/
     Alaska Native
659 (11.2) 0.9   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 63.4   (0.82) 24.7   (0.69) 10.2   (0.54) 1.8   (0.23)
Other races 1,669 (23.9) 2.3   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 63.4   (0.76) 26.8   (0.62) 7.9   (0.40) 2.0   (0.21)

  Children under age 6
                                       
Total 22,494 (27.3) 100.0   (†) 100.0   (†) 64.8   (0.20) 25.2   (0.17) 8.2   (0.10) 1.9   (0.05)
White 10,620 (18.9) 47.2   (0.07) 100.0   (†) 77.0   (0.22) 14.6   (0.18) 6.8   (0.12) 1.6   (0.06)
Black 2,803 (21.9) 12.5   (0.10) 100.0   (†) 32.8   (0.57) 55.9   (0.55) 9.1   (0.31) 2.3   (0.20)

  Hispanic
5,826 (15.4) 25.9   (0.06) 100.0   (†) 55.2   (0.42) 31.6   (0.38) 11.1   (0.22) 2.0   (0.10)
Cuban 157 (6.3) 0.7   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 58.5   (2.20) 26.5   (1.81) 12.0   (1.49) 2.9   (0.59)
Dominican 244 (8.4) 1.1   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 43.9   (1.70) 44.6   (1.90) 9.6   (1.06) 1.9   (0.49)
Mexican 3,547 (21.0) 15.8   (0.09) 100.0   (†) 55.9   (0.53) 31.1   (0.45) 11.2   (0.29) 1.8   (0.12)
Puerto Rican 525 (10.4) 2.3   (0.05) 100.0   (†) 45.3   (1.27) 41.3   (1.34) 11.2   (0.81) 2.2   (0.33)
Spaniard 88 (4.7) 0.4   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 67.8   (3.04) 22.2   (2.81) 9.1   (1.91) 0.9 ! (0.45)
Central American 655 (15.1) 2.9   (0.07) 100.0   (†) 53.0   (1.07) 30.7   (0.98) 13.6   (0.69) 2.7   (0.36)
Costa Rican 15 (2.4) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 79.4   (6.08) 12.1 ! (4.40)   (†)   (†)
Guatemalan 194 (7.4) 0.9   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 53.1   (1.71) 29.6   (1.70) 14.5   (1.32) 2.8   (0.59)
Honduran 137 (6.5) 0.6   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 47.1   (2.41) 33.8   (2.39) 16.1   (1.71) 3.0   (0.82)
Nicaraguan 41 (3.7) 0.2   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 64.3   (4.19) 27.4   (3.94) 6.7   (1.86)   (†)
Panamanian 20 (2.3) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 62.3   (6.07) 31.0   (5.70)   (†)   (†)
Salvadoran 244 (9.1) 1.1   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 52.1   (1.85) 31.2   (1.75) 14.2   (1.22) 2.5   (0.59)
Other Central American (†) #   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)
South American 307 (10.0) 1.4   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 72.0   (1.34) 20.3   (1.27) 6.9   (0.74) 0.8   (0.19)
Chilean 18 (2.6) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 82.6   (4.48) 8.6 ! (2.98) 6.1 ! (2.78)   (†)
Colombian 99 (5.0) 0.4   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 68.8   (2.33) 23.4   (2.17) 7.5   (1.20)   (†)
Ecuadorian 67 (4.8) 0.3   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 66.8   (3.31) 22.6   (2.82) 9.5   (2.01)   (†)
Peruvian 46 (3.1) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 65.0   (3.50) 26.2   (3.42) 7.2   (1.74)   (†)
Venezuelan 40 (3.6) 0.2   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 81.8   (3.28) 13.3   (3.13) 4.9 ! (2.03)   (†)
Other South American 37 (3.2) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 83.4   (2.16) 13.7   (2.21) 2.5 ! (1.21)   (†)
Other Hispanic 304 (7.9) 1.4   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 56.1   (1.75) 30.5   (1.37) 10.7   (1.08) 2.7   (0.45)

  Asian
1,101 (9.7) 4.9   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 86.3   (0.51) 8.7   (0.42) 4.2   (0.32) 0.8   (0.13)
Chinese3 193 (5.6) 0.9   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 85.5   (1.17) 9.7   (1.04) 3.9   (0.62) 0.9   (0.26)
Filipino 102 (5.1) 0.5   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 80.2   (1.73) 13.9   (1.52) 4.3   (0.73) 1.6 ! (0.48)
Japanese 23 (2.2) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 89.6   (2.33) 6.1 ! (2.10)   (†) 3.2 ! (1.28)
Korean 56 (3.1) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 89.1   (1.99) 5.3   (1.16) 4.3 ! (1.41)   (†)
South Asian 435 (8.4) 1.9   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 94.0   (0.54) 3.3   (0.35) 2.3   (0.34) 0.4 ! (0.14)
Asian Indian 331 (7.6) 1.5   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 94.7   (0.62) 2.5   (0.38) 2.6   (0.42) 0.2 ! (0.10)
Bangladeshi 24 (2.6) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 95.0   (2.24)   (†)   (†)   (†)
Bhutanese (†) #   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)
Nepalese 23 (2.5) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 91.6   (2.46) 3.5 ! (1.51)   (†)   (†)
Pakistani 50 (3.3) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 90.2   (1.82) 8.3   (1.89)   (†)   (†)
Sri Lankan 4 (0.8) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 100.0   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)
Southeast Asian 179 (7.4) 0.8   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 70.6   (1.60) 19.2   (1.50) 9.5   (1.16) 0.6 ! (0.21)
Burmese 24 (2.4) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 82.9   (3.86) 14.4   (3.85)   (†)   (†)
Cambodian 16 (1.7) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 41.9   (6.41) 43.6   (7.30) 11.7 ! (4.02)   (†)
Hmong 42 (2.9) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 53.5   (4.08) 22.8   (3.68) 23.5   (3.86)   (†)
Laotian 5 (0.8) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 54.8   (8.71) 36.5   (8.37)   (†)   (†)
Thai 5 (1.0) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 80.0   (7.91) 7.7 ! (3.22)   (†)   (†)
Vietnamese 85 (5.2) 0.4   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 80.3   (2.01) 14.6   (1.89) 4.7   (0.87)   (†)
Other Southeast Asian4 (†) #   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)
Other Asian 113 (4.5) 0.5   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 86.1   (1.71) 8.6   (1.33) 3.8   (0.73)   (†)

  Pacific Islander
41 (2.3) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 53.2   (3.95) 29.1   (3.12) 10.8   (2.39) 6.9 ! (2.37)
  American Indian/Alaska Native 124 (3.5) 0.5   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 37.0   (1.65) 41.4   (1.75) 16.2   (1.37) 5.3   (0.81)
  Some other race5 198 (7.9) 0.9   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 64.9   (1.59) 20.0   (1.49) 7.7   (0.96) 7.3   (1.12)

  Two or more races
1,781 (20.4) 7.9   (0.09) 100.0   (†) 62.1   (0.54) 28.3   (0.50) 7.9   (0.35) 1.8   (0.17)
White and Black 618 (13.2) 2.7   (0.06) 100.0   (†) 43.1   (0.95) 45.2   (1.06) 8.8   (0.59) 2.8   (0.32)
White and Asian 431 (6.7) 1.9   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 85.7   (0.73) 9.1   (0.59) 4.9   (0.46) 0.3 ! (0.09)
White and American Indian/
      Alaska Native
190 (5.1) 0.8   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 63.3   (1.34) 25.6   (1.26) 10.1   (0.84) 1.0   (0.30)
Other races 543 (12.6) 2.4   (0.06) 100.0   (†) 64.4   (1.10) 25.3   (0.90) 8.3   (0.67) 1.9   (0.38)
†Not applicable.
#Rounds to zero.
!Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent.
‡Reporting standards not met. Either there are too few cases for a reliable estimate or the coefficient of variation (CV) is 50 percent or greater.
1Includes all children who live either with their parent(s) or with a householder to whom they are related by birth, marriage, or adoption (except a child who is the spouse of the householder). Children are classified by their parents’ marital status or, if no parents are present in the household, by the marital status of the householder who is related to the children. Living arrangements with only a "female householder" or "male householder" are those in which the parent or the householder who is related to the child does not have a spouse living in the household. The householder is the person (or one of the people) who owns or rents (maintains) the housing unit.
2Includes foster children, children in unrelated subfamilies, children living in group quarters, and children who were reported as the householder or spouse of the householder.
3Includes Taiwanese.
4Consists of Indonesian and Malaysian.
5Consists of respondents who wrote in some other race that was not included as an option on the questionnaire.
NOTE: Data are based on sample surveys of the entire population residing within the United States, including both noninstitutionalized persons (e.g., those living in households, college housing, or military housing located within the United States) and institutionalized persons (e.g., those living in prisons, nursing facilities, or other healthcare facilities). The data source for this table changed from the Current Population Survey to the American Community Survey for Digest 2022. Comparison should not be made with the prior version of the table. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS), 2021. (This table was prepared November 2022.)

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