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. 2003 Mar;93(3):467–471. doi: 10.2105/ajph.93.3.467

TABLE 1—

Demographic Data on 107 US Cities

Mean SD Minimum Maximum
1990 population 493,476 812,742 143,485 7,322,564
Percentage Black 23.14 17.78 1.32 75.67
Percentage married 50.13 6.40 35.00 63.77
Percentage in poverty 17.56 5.69 4.25 32.41
Percentage with less than high school education 9.14 4.97 2.35 31.92
Percentage unemployed 7.45 2.52 2.80 19.67
Boarded-up units per 1000 0.709 0.657 0.02 3.61
Percentage population change from 1980 to 1990 11.00 19.72 –16.41 89.53
Percentage uninsured 14.33 5.64 5.00 29.70

Note. Data are from the 1990 US Census.17