Digest of Education Statistics
2020 Tables and Figures All Years of Tables and Figures Most Recent Full Issue of the Digest


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: 2019
[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 72,912 (27.8) 100.0   (†) 100.0   (†) 63.3   (0.12) 26.2   (0.11) 8.2   (0.07) 2.2   (0.03)
White 36,508 (8.3) 50.1   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 73.3   (0.16) 16.9   (0.13) 7.6   (0.08) 2.2   (0.03)
Black 9,728 (33.0) 13.3   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 34.2   (0.33) 54.6   (0.35) 8.5   (0.20) 2.6   (0.09)

Hispanic
18,618 (10.3) 25.5   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 56.6   (0.23) 31.2   (0.21) 10.0   (0.17) 2.1   (0.06)
Cuban 481 (11.9) 0.7   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 58.9   (1.35) 29.5   (1.18) 10.3   (0.79) 1.3   (0.27)
Dominican 584 (12.3) 0.8   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 43.6   (1.29) 46.6   (1.38) 8.4   (0.75) 1.4   (0.22)
Mexican 12,206 (40.1) 16.7   (0.05) 100.0   (†) 58.3   (0.30) 29.9   (0.25) 9.9   (0.19) 1.9   (0.07)
Puerto Rican 1,758 (20.5) 2.4   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 46.0   (0.79) 42.2   (0.76) 9.4   (0.40) 2.4   (0.19)
Spaniard 199 (9.2) 0.3   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 66.8   (2.29) 23.8   (2.27) 8.2   (1.17) 1.2   (0.26)
Central American3 1,799 (26.2) 2.5   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 53.2   (0.78) 30.1   (0.77) 13.1   (0.56) 3.5   (0.30)
Costa Rican 40 (3.9) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 72.2   (4.65) 18.1   (3.85) 8.8 ! (2.86) 0.8 ! (0.40)
Guatemalan 547 (16.4) 0.8   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 55.5   (1.26) 25.8   (1.22) 14.9   (1.04) 3.8   (0.44)
Honduran 353 (11.8) 0.5   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 45.3   (1.68) 37.1   (1.55) 13.1   (1.11) 4.5   (0.79)
Nicaraguan 100 (6.3) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 58.1   (3.21) 27.4   (2.63) 12.9   (2.64) 1.5   (0.46)
Panamanian 42 (3.9) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 64.6   (3.86) 22.7   (3.16) 12.0   (3.11)   (†)
Salvadoran 695 (15.8) 1.0   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 53.2   (1.28) 31.2   (1.21) 12.3   (0.85) 3.4   (0.53)
South American 903 (16.7) 1.2   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 68.8   (0.92) 22.3   (0.81) 7.1   (0.58) 1.8   (0.23)
Chilean 40 (4.0) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 68.9   (4.91) 21.7   (4.54) 8.1 ! (2.77)   (†)
Colombian 260 (9.6) 0.4   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 67.4   (1.48) 24.0   (1.36) 6.6   (0.80) 2.0   (0.43)
Ecuadorian 182 (8.3) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 61.2   (2.10) 26.9   (2.08) 9.7   (1.19) 2.2 ! (0.68)
Peruvian 154 (8.0) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 64.0   (2.17) 23.9   (1.94) 9.5   (1.68) 2.5   (0.65)
Venezuelan 131 (7.7) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 78.0   (2.31) 17.4   (2.30) 3.4   (0.92) 1.2 ! (0.45)
Other South American 136 (6.9) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 78.3   (1.88) 15.7   (1.43) 5.3   (1.28) 0.7 ! (0.33)
Other Hispanic 688 (17.5) 0.9   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 53.8   (1.21) 31.3   (1.15) 10.5   (0.65) 4.3   (0.44)

Asian
3,442 (16.7) 4.7   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 84.2   (0.33) 9.9   (0.26) 4.5   (0.19) 1.3   (0.08)
Chinese4 719 (12.9) 1.0   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 84.1   (0.63) 10.0   (0.50) 3.7   (0.36) 2.3   (0.25)
Filipino 399 (10.0) 0.5   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 75.5   (1.10) 15.3   (1.01) 7.6   (0.93) 1.6   (0.25)
Japanese 65 (3.9) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 83.0   (2.21) 9.1   (1.79) 4.6   (1.12) 3.3   (0.87)
Korean 219 (7.5) 0.3   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 88.2   (0.93) 6.4   (0.78) 4.0   (0.66) 1.5   (0.34)
South Asian5 1,200 (14.7) 1.6   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 92.6   (0.39) 4.9   (0.33) 2.0   (0.23) 0.4   (0.07)
Asian Indian 958 (14.4) 1.3   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 93.8   (0.39) 3.9   (0.29) 1.9   (0.28) 0.4   (0.09)
Bangladeshi 53 (3.4) 0.1   (#) 100.0   (†) 87.3   (2.70) 11.1   (2.57) 1.6 ! (0.74)   (†)
Bhutanese 5 (1.4) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 68.8   (8.93) 18.7 ! (6.74) 12.4 ! (6.16)   (†)
Nepalese 49 (4.0) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 83.8   (3.58) 10.1 ! (3.15) 4.7 ! (1.93)   (†)
Pakistani 127 (5.8) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 90.2   (1.43) 7.6   (1.27) 1.7 ! (0.63)   (†)
Southeast Asian 610 (12.1) 0.8   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 72.5   (0.90) 17.1   (0.83) 8.7   (0.58) 1.7   (0.22)
Burmese 58 (4.5) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 84.5   (3.05) 11.0   (2.64) 3.9 ! (1.38)   (†)
Cambodian 43 (3.9) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 58.3   (4.20) 30.1   (4.15) 8.8   (1.98) 2.7 ! (1.06)
Hmong 99 (4.9) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 64.9   (3.06) 18.8   (2.72) 15.7   (2.12)   (†)
Laotian 33 (3.7) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 50.4   (5.61) 30.6   (4.93) 15.8   (3.58) 3.2 ! (1.53)
Thai 27 (2.4) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 68.1   (4.13) 15.5   (3.36) 7.8   (2.14) 8.6 ! (3.18)
Vietnamese 335 (9.4) 0.5   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 76.4   (1.26) 15.1   (1.07) 7.2   (0.71) 1.3   (0.19)
Other Southeast Asian6 15 (2.0) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 88.1   (3.41) 7.4 ! (2.81)   (†) 3.9 ! (1.86)
Other Asian 231 (7.1) 0.3   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 83.2   (1.17) 11.6   (1.08) 4.1   (0.63) 1.1   (0.28)

Pacific Islander
130 (5.4) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 58.9   (2.53) 25.7   (2.34) 12.4   (1.80) 2.9   (0.63)
American Indian/Alaska Native 556 (7.7) 0.8   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 45.3   (1.05) 38.3   (1.01) 12.6   (0.72) 3.9   (0.42)
Some other race7 286 (9.9) 0.4   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 58.6   (1.66) 28.1   (1.48) 8.4   (1.02) 4.9   (0.62)

Two or more races
3,643 (31.5) 5.0   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 58.7   (0.48) 31.4   (0.45) 7.9   (0.26) 2.0   (0.10)
White and Black 1,610 (24.8) 2.2   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 42.5   (0.80) 45.8   (0.75) 9.0   (0.48) 2.7   (0.19)
White and Asian 1,074 (14.8) 1.5   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 83.0   (0.52) 11.3   (0.48) 4.9   (0.31) 0.9   (0.13)
White and American Indian/
    Alaska Native
344 (8.7) 0.5   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 60.5   (1.31) 26.0   (1.11) 11.2   (0.82) 2.4   (0.31)
Other races 615 (12.5) 0.8   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 57.8   (1.22) 32.0   (1.18) 8.5   (0.57) 1.8   (0.21)

    Children under age 6
                                       
Total 23,196 (33.3) 100.0   (†) 100.0   (†) 63.9   (0.16) 25.8   (0.14) 8.3   (0.10) 2.0   (0.05)
White 11,567 (16.0) 49.9   (0.07) 100.0   (†) 75.6   (0.22) 15.3   (0.18) 7.0   (0.12) 2.1   (0.06)
Black 3,001 (19.7) 12.9   (0.08) 100.0   (†) 31.7   (0.42) 57.0   (0.52) 8.8   (0.31) 2.4   (0.15)

Hispanic
5,972 (16.1) 25.7   (0.06) 100.0   (†) 54.7   (0.36) 32.2   (0.30) 11.2   (0.27) 1.8   (0.10)
Cuban 167 (6.6) 0.7   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 57.3   (2.11) 29.1   (1.98) 12.1   (1.27) 1.4 ! (0.56)
Dominican 201 (7.2) 0.9   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 44.8   (1.85) 46.0   (1.94) 8.0   (1.22) 1.3   (0.30)
Mexican 3,823 (22.5) 16.5   (0.09) 100.0   (†) 55.6   (0.48) 31.5   (0.43) 11.3   (0.29) 1.6   (0.10)
Puerto Rican 590 (12.0) 2.5   (0.05) 100.0   (†) 43.3   (1.13) 44.2   (1.11) 10.7   (0.71) 1.7   (0.30)
Spaniard 66 (4.7) 0.3   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 71.8   (3.04) 19.5   (2.85) 8.1   (1.71)   (†)
Central American3 611 (15.4) 2.6   (0.07) 100.0   (†) 53.0   (1.18) 29.6   (1.08) 14.1   (0.82) 3.2   (0.44)
Costa Rican 14 (1.9) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 72.6   (7.01) 20.6 ! (6.59)   (†)   (†)
Guatemalan 185 (8.5) 0.8   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 53.7   (1.86) 26.3   (1.57) 16.9   (1.68) 3.1   (0.65)
Honduran 121 (5.6) 0.5   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 46.0   (2.82) 34.3   (2.30) 15.7   (1.96) 4.0 ! (1.35)
Nicaraguan 36 (3.6) 0.2   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 61.1   (4.52) 25.7   (4.38) 12.2   (3.35)   (†)
Panamanian 13 (1.7) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 58.3   (5.36) 28.1   (5.45) 12.0 ! (4.16)   (†)
Salvadoran 234 (9.4) 1.0   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 53.6   (1.86) 30.5   (1.57) 12.4   (1.30) 3.6   (0.80)
South American 295 (9.2) 1.3   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 71.7   (1.34) 19.0   (1.07) 8.1   (1.10) 1.2   (0.32)
Chilean 14 (2.1) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 72.1   (7.92) 19.9 ! (7.15)   (†)   (†)
Colombian 84 (5.3) 0.4   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 70.2   (2.90) 20.5   (2.37) 7.8   (1.71) 1.4 ! (0.64)
Ecuadorian 61 (4.3) 0.3   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 62.9   (3.31) 24.1   (2.80) 10.6   (2.35)   (†)
Peruvian 50 (3.8) 0.2   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 70.7   (3.35) 17.8   (2.93) 10.3   (2.67) 1.1 ! (0.44)
Venezuelan 46 (4.1) 0.2   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 83.6   (2.77) 13.0   (2.65) 2.5 ! (1.01)   (†)
Other South American 41 (3.4) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 75.3   (3.73) 16.4   (2.90) 8.4 ! (3.04)   (†)
Other Hispanic 220 (8.4) 0.9   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 53.6   (2.04) 31.5   (1.73) 11.5   (1.02) 3.4   (0.60)

Asian
1,053 (8.9) 4.5   (0.04) 100.0   (†) 87.0   (0.53) 7.9   (0.46) 4.2   (0.26) 0.9   (0.14)
Chinese4 210 (6.2) 0.9   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 87.5   (1.03) 7.5   (0.82) 3.5   (0.58) 1.6   (0.49)
Filipino 105 (5.2) 0.5   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 77.9   (1.87) 14.1   (1.66) 6.3   (1.32) 1.6   (0.46)
Japanese 20 (1.9) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 86.2   (3.23) 9.0 ! (2.87) 3.2 ! (1.45) 1.6 ! (0.77)
Korean 56 (3.3) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 92.4   (1.87) 2.9 ! (0.90) 4.1 ! (1.50)   (†)
South Asian5 424 (7.9) 1.8   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 93.7   (0.58) 4.1   (0.47) 1.9   (0.33) 0.3   (0.09)
Asian Indian 334 (6.5) 1.4   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 95.0   (0.55) 2.8   (0.39) 1.9   (0.37) 0.3 ! (0.09)
Bangladeshi 21 (2.0) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 88.7   (3.54) 10.5 ! (3.52)   (†)   (†)
Bhutanese (†) #   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)   (†)
Nepalese 22 (2.2) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 86.2   (4.09) 10.3 ! (4.06)   (†)   (†)
Pakistani 42 (3.1) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 90.6   (1.93) 7.0   (1.49) 2.2 ! (1.01)   (†)
Southeast Asian 156 (4.8) 0.7   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 72.6   (1.61) 16.7   (1.52) 9.4   (1.10) 1.3   (0.35)
Burmese 20 (2.1) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 82.5   (4.43) 10.3 ! (3.65) 7.2 ! (2.74)   (†)
Cambodian 12 (1.5) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 58.3   (6.35) 28.2   (6.26) 11.4 ! (3.73)   (†)
Hmong 35 (2.5) 0.1   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 65.2   (3.85) 16.1   (3.16) 18.6   (3.15)   (†)
Laotian 7 (1.3) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 45.4   (9.87) 38.9   (9.73) 9.9 ! (4.49)   (†)
Thai 7 (1.3) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 78.7   (7.18) 13.8 ! (5.81)   (†)   (†)
Vietnamese 71 (3.5) 0.3   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 76.9   (2.26) 15.6   (2.01) 5.9   (1.32) 1.6   (0.45)
Other Southeast Asian6 4 (0.9) #   (†) 100.0   (†) 92.3   (3.66)   (†)   (†)   (†)
Other Asian 82 (4.0) 0.4   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 87.1   (1.67) 6.9   (1.27) 5.1   (1.04) 0.8 ! (0.37)

Pacific Islander
43 (2.8) 0.2   (0.01) 100.0   (†) 56.2   (3.71) 27.9   (3.20) 12.6   (2.73) 3.2 ! (1.13)
American Indian/Alaska Native 162 (3.7) 0.7   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 40.2   (1.50) 40.9   (1.54) 15.3   (1.36) 3.7   (0.65)
Some other race7 98 (5.3) 0.4   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 55.1   (2.34) 29.5   (2.26) 8.7   (1.52) 6.7   (1.35)

Two or more races
1,301 (17.3) 5.6   (0.07) 100.0   (†) 61.1   (0.73) 29.6   (0.71) 7.7   (0.37) 1.5   (0.15)
White and Black 585 (12.5) 2.5   (0.05) 100.0   (†) 43.2   (1.18) 45.1   (1.12) 9.5   (0.77) 2.2   (0.23)
White and Asian 397 (8.0) 1.7   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 87.7   (0.73) 7.7   (0.61) 4.0   (0.41) 0.5   (0.11)
White and American Indian/
    Alaska Native
107 (4.1) 0.5   (0.02) 100.0   (†) 60.0   (2.17) 24.4   (1.93) 13.2   (1.45) 2.4   (0.58)
Other races 212 (7.6) 0.9   (0.03) 100.0   (†) 61.2   (1.65) 30.5   (1.73) 7.0   (0.84) 1.2   (0.36)
†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.
1 Includes 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.
2 Includes foster children, children in unrelated subfamilies, children living in group quarters, and children who were reported as the householder or spouse of the householder.
3 Includes other Central American subgroups not shown separately.
4 Includes Taiwanese.
5 In addition to the subgroups shown, also includes Sri Lankan.
6 Consists of Indonesian and Malaysian.
7 Consists 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). 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), 2019. (This table was prepared November 2020.)

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