Takoma Park is 47.1% male. (US: 49.1%)
Population below poverty level: 10.3% (US: 12.4%) Of those over 65: 20.5%
The difference in earnings of full-time, year round workers Male:$40,668 Female:$35,073. Among Takoma Park residents women's incomes are only about 86% those of men.

Also: in 2000
11.5% of the school age children were in private school
13.5% of the 16-19 year olds were not in school and had no high school degree
50.3% of the 18-24 year olds were in college or grad school

In 2000 31.6% of the residents age 5 and up spoke a languge other than English at home. 13.0% of the residents speak English "less than well"
 
Compare to US as a whole where 17.9% spoke a language other than English at home.

In Takoma Park, of those speaking a language other than English at home, 45% were speaking Spanish, 20% an African language, 13% French or a French creole.
 
28.6% of the Takoma Park population was foreign born. (In the US: 11.1%)

Our residents were born in many different places: The United States, Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, "Yugoslavia", "Soviet Union", Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Philippines, Taiwan, Turkey, Vietnam, Canada, Mexico, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Argentina, Bolivis, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, and other countries. (From the 1990 census. The 2000 census is clearly inaccurate, omitting birth places of residents who were living here and filed census returns.) No ethnic group predominates. Acadian/Cajun; Arab (including Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian); Armenian; Austrian; Belgian; Brazilian; British; Bulgarian; Canadian; Celtic; Croatian; Celtic; Croatian; Czech; Czechoslovakian; Danish; Dutch; English; Finnish; French; French Canadian; German; Greek; Guyanese; Hungarian; Iranian; Irish; Israeli; Italian; Latvian; Lithuanian; Norwegian; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Scandinavian; Scotch-Irish; Scottish; Slavic; Slovak; Slovene; Subsaharan African 10.3% (including Ethiopian, Ghanian, Kenyan, Liberian, Nigerian, Sierra Leonean, Somalian, South African) Swedish; Swiss; Turkish; Ukrainian; Welsh; West Indian 4.4% (including Bahamian, British West Indian, Haitian, Jamaican, Trinidadian or Tobagonian) Puerto Rican; Cuban; Dominican; Costa Rican; Guatemalan; Honduran; Nicaraguan; Panamanian; Salvadoran; Argentinean; Bolivian; Chilean; Colombian; Ecuadorian; Paraguayan; Peruvian; Uruguayan; Venezuelan; Native American and many other ancestries not included in the census codes.

Information from the printed and online federal census reports. Our census tracts are 7018 and 7017.01, 7017.02, 7017.03, 7017.04
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