Table 2.

Weighted Descriptives of Analytic Sample

	Pooled Sample	U.S. born Whites	U.S. born Blacks	U.S. born Latinos	Authorized Latino immigrants	Unauthorized Latino immigrants
Dependent variable
Housing Cost burdened (%)	60.0	53.7	48.3	62.0	57.2	76.2
Mean annual family income ($)	19,089	18,308	20,233	20,064	20,221	17,523
Mean annual housing costs ($)	6,526	5,790	6,468	6,774	7,071	6,629
Mean ratio of housing costs to income (%)	38.8	36.0	35.9	40.0	39.6	42.2
Independent Variables
Race/nativity/legal status (%)	100.0	26.8	12.3	9.4	29.0	22.4
Bank account (%)	46.1	68.2	38.4	64.8	45.2	17.4
Receives public assistance (%)	44.0	78.2	74.2	41.1	27.8	8.8
Own home (%)	32.4	52.6	37.6	44.8	29.6	4.0
Mean number of rooms	3.4	4.3	3.8	3.7	3.2	2.5
Nine years or more education (%)	72.8	97.0	98.6	85.9	50.0	54.0
Age (%)
18–29 years	27.0	18.4	18.6	50.0	17.5	44.9
30–44 years	35.7	23.4	36.8	22.0	42.4	46.7
45–59 years	15.2	12.0	14.0	8.8	26.7	7.7
60 years or older	22.1	46.3	30.6	19.2	13.4	1.0
Married (%)	50.0	42.9	21.6	50.2	61.9	58.9
Children Present (%)	42.7	21.5	42.0	44.7	55.4	51.1
Location quotient of recent immigrants	1.2	0.7	1.1	1.0	1.4	1.5
Location quotient of median home price	0.8	0.9	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8
15 years or more in U.S. (%)	----	----	----	----	82.7	93.0
English survey Total N	----	----	----	----	16.0	2.1
Total N	876	105	97	96	339	239

Source: Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 1. Percents may not equal 100.0 due to rounding.