Editing Fall River, Massachusetts (section)

===2020 census===
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|+'''Fall River, Massachusetts – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Fall River city, Massachusetts|url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALSF12000.P004?g=160XX00US2523000|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Fall River city, Massachusetts|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2523000&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Fall River city, Massachusetts|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2523000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|82,274
|74,107
|style='background: #ffffe6; |66,746
|89.49%
|83.40%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |71.01%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|2,097
|3,016
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4,643
|2.28%
|3.39%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.94%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|147
|163
|style='background: #ffffe6; |185
|0.16%
|0.18%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.20%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|1,980
|2,249
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,475
|2.15%
|2.53%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.63%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|16
|10
|style='background: #ffffe6; |17
|0.02%
|0.01%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.02%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Some Other Race]] alone (NH)
|323
|787
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,370
|0.35%
|0.89%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.46%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed Race or Multi-Racial]] (NH)
|2,061
|1,963
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5,982
|2.24%
|2.21%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |6.36%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|3,040
|6,562
|style='background: #ffffe6; |12,582
|3.31%
|7.38%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |13.39%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''91,938'''
|'''88,857'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''94,000'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}
According to the [[2020 United States census|U.S. Census of 2020]], the population of Fall River is 94,000. The largest racial groups within the city were 87.2% (83.4% Non-Hispanic) [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 3.5%  [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 2.5% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]] and 0.2% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]] and 7.4% [[Hispanic American|Hispanic or Latino]]. 49% of residents are [[Luso American]] or have origins somewhere in the former Portuguese Empire. 37% of the population described themselves as being of [[Portuguese American|Portuguese]] ancestry. The next largest groups by ancestry are [[French Americans|French]] (12.4%) the original immigrants to largely populate Fall River until the Portuguese started immigrating to the area, [[Irish Americans|Irish]] (8.9%), [[Cape Verdean Americans|Cape Verde]]an (8.1%), [[English Americans|English]] (6.0%), [[French Canadian]] (5.9%), [[Puerto Rican American|Puerto Rican]] (4.5%), and [[Italian American|Italian]] (3.6%).<ref name="censtats.census.gov">[http://censtats.census.gov/data/MA/1602523000.pdf General Demographic Characteristics for Fall River] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410093448/http://censtats.census.gov/data/MA/1602523000.pdf |date=April 10, 2008 }}</ref>

Fall River and its surrounding communities form much of the Massachusetts portion of the [[Providence metropolitan area]], which has an estimated population of 1,622,520.

In percentage terms, Fall River has the largest [[Portuguese American]] population in the United States. The exact percentage of the population they make up is disputed; a 2005 study by the [[University of Massachusetts Dartmouth]] estimated that 49.6% of city residents are Portuguese American,<ref>[http://www.umassd.edu/cfpa/docs/portuguese_education.pdf University of Massachusetts Dartmouth p. 8] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410093450/http://www.umassd.edu/cfpa/docs/portuguese_education.pdf |date=April 10, 2008 }}</ref> while other sources estimate that 43.9% are.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Portuguese.html|title=Ancestry Search – Genealogy by City|website=epodunk.com|access-date=February 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716053514/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Portuguese.html|archive-date=July 16, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The city has 38,759 households and 23,558 families. The population density was {{convert|2,963.7|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 41,857 housing units at an average density of {{convert|1,349.3|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. Of the 38,759 households, 29.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.3% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 16.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.2% were non-families. 34.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 3.00.

In terms of age, the population was spread out, with 24.1% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 29.8% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 16.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.9 males.

The [[median household income]] was $29,014, and the median family income was $37,671. Males had a median income of $31,330 versus $22,883 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $16,118. About 14.0% of families and 17.1% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 25.4% of those under age 18 and 17.4% of those age 65 or over.<ref name="censtats.census.gov"/>