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Population	Colonial Heights	Richmond	Virginia
Total	16,897	197,790	7,078,515
Male	46.67%	46.38%	49.01%
Female	53.33%	53.62%	50.99%

Race and Hispanic Origin	Colonial Heights	Richmond	Virginia
Total Hispanic	293	5,239	327,273
White alone	34.13%	26.88%	46.76%
African American alone	0.00%	12.56%	3.87%
Asian/Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander alone	2.05%	1.57%	0.69%
American Indian/Alaska Native alone	0.00%	0.65%	0.59%
Other alone	62.46%	50.89%	38.96%
Two or more races	1.37%	7.46%	9.13%
Total Non Hispanic	16,604	192,551	6,751,242
White alone	90.63%	38.84%	73.53%
African American alone	6.14%	58.16%	20.31%
Asian/Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander alone	2.18%	1.28%	3.82%
American Indian/Alaska Native alone	0.43%	0.25%	0.30%
Other alone	0.00%	0.16%	0.16%
Two or more races	0.62%	1.30%	1.88%

Age	Colonial Heights	Richmond	Virginia
Total Population	16,897	197,790	7,078,515
Less than 5 years old	4.88%	6.27%	6.49%
5-11 years old	8.73%	9.04%	9.90%
12-17 years old	8.94%	6.55%	8.13%
18-24 years old	8.36%	13.14%	9.55%
25-44 years old	26.57%	31.82%	31.78%
45-64 years old	23.83%	19.79%	22.98%
65-74 years old	9.74%	6.73%	6.14%
75 years old and older	8.95%	6.67%	5.03%

Families	Colonial Heights	Richmond	Virginia
Total families	4,771	44,225	1,859,983

Family Households	Colonial Heights	Richmond	Virginia
Total number of families with children 18 years or younger	2,062	20,019	897,563
Female householders (no husband present) with children under 18	24.68%	49.40%	20.25%
Male householders (no wife present) with children under 18	5.63%	7.44%	5.62%
Married households with children under 18	69.69%	43.15%	74.13%

Marital Status	Colonial Heights	Richmond	Virginia
Population 15 years old and older	13,780	160,809	5,623,628
Never married	21.93%	40.94%	26.19%
Married	57.53%	38.93%	58.61%
Divorced	11.18%	11.52%	8.97%
Widowed	9.36%	8.61%	6.23%

Nativity and Citizenship Status	Colonial Heights	Richmond	Virginia
Total Population	16,897	197,790	7,078,515
Native (born in or outside of U.S.)	95.05%	96.14%	91.94%
Foreign Born	4.95%	3.86%	8.06%
Total Foreign Born	836	7,643	570,279
Naturalized	63.16%	35.52%	40.82%
Not a citizen	36.84%	64.48%	59.18%

Mobility Status	Colonial Heights	Richmond	Virginia
Population 5 years old and older	16,072	185,379	6,619,266
Lived in same house in 1995	58.71%	47.97%	52.17%
Lived in different house, same county in 1995	14.35%	25.27%	18.08%
Lived in different county, same state in 1995	18.94%	15.74%	14.23%
Lived in different county, different state in 1995	1.72%	2.23%	2.99%
Elsewhere in 1995	6.27%	8.73%	12.41%

Original Data Source: Census 2000 Summary File 3 - Virginia / prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau, 2002
Recombined at Neighborhood Level by Datashare Metro Richmond.
Data last updated: February 13, 2007