Arvada Colorado Demographics

According to the 2000 census, the Arvada Population was approx. 102,000 people, 39,000 households, and 28,000 families residing in Arvada Colorado. The diversity makeup of Arvada was 91% White, 2% Asian, and 7% hispanic or other races.

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The Arvada Chamber of Commerce has usefull information regarding the formation of business and growth for the city of Arvada.

Of the 39,000 households, 34% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57% were married couples living together, 10% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29% were non-families (y'know, college age twenty-somethings having a fun life...). Approx. 23% of all households were made up of individuals and 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.07 (The 2.3 pets and white picket fences weren't counted in this census).

Now, something we really care about, how about the money. The median household income in Arvada was approx. $55k, and the median income for a family was approx. $63k. This doesn't mean that if you make more or less you are rich or poor, these are just the numbers that the census data spits out. Finally, per capita income for the city of Arvada was $24,679.

Ok, here's the really boring statistical stuff about Arvada housing for those of you that enjoy this sort of thing.

Houses: 39,623 (38,914 occupied: 29,394 owner occupied, 9,520 renter occupied)

Housing density: 1213 houses/condos per square mile

Median price asked for Arvada Real Estate, in for-sale houses and condos during 2005: $239,300 (lower quartile is $205,800, upper quartile is $302,700)

Median contract rent in 2005: $753 (lower quartile is $575, upper quartile is $1,046)

Housing units in Arvada with a mortgage: 21,634 (3,970 second mortgage, 2,165 home equity loan, 78 both second mortgage and home equity loan)

Houses without a mortgage: 5,598(lucky people, or smart...)

Median year house/condo built: 1975
Median year apartment built: 1975
Household type by relationship

Households: 101,744

Size of nonfamily households: 8,885 1-person, 1,832 2-persons, 221 3-persons, 56 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons.

19,530 married couples with children. 5,076 single-parent households (1,334 men, 3,742 women).

91.2% of residents of Arvada speak English at home. 3.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% very well, 16% well, 12% not well, 3% not at all). 3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% very well, 21% well, 20% not well, 8% not at all). 1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (41% very well, 35% well, 19% not well, 6% not at all). 0.3% of residents speak other language at home (77% very well, 15% well, 7% not well).

Foreign born population: 4,875 (4.8%) (44.5% of them are naturalized citizens)

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