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Child population by household type in the United States

Change Indicator

Child population by household type

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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.

Definitions: Percent of total child population in married-couple, father only, and mother only households.

Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Supplementary Survey, 2001 Supplementary Survey, 2002 through 2018 American Community Survey. 

These data were derived from ACS table B09005.

Footnotes: Updated October 2019.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points.
N.A. – Data not available.
Data is provided for the 50 most populous cities according to the most recent Census counts. Cities for which data is collected may change over time.
Use caution when comparing congressional districts over time. Congressional district boundaries may change between decennial censuses. Annual data for each congressional district refers to the boundaries for that district in that year.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at: Child population by household type.