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===2010 census=== {| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" style="font-size: 90%" |- ! Demographic profile !! 1950<ref name="TWPS0076">[https://www2.census.gov/library/working-papers/2005/demo/pop-twps0076/njtab.xls "Table 31. New Jersey β Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Large Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990"], [[United States Census Bureau]], released July 13, 2005. Accessed November 6, 2023. For 1970, data was used from the 15% sample for Hispanic / Non-Hispanic percentage counts.</ref>!! 1970<ref name="TWPS0076" />!! 1990<ref name="TWPS0076" />!! 2010<ref name="Census2010" /> |- | [[White American|White]] || 85.9% || 59.8% || 19.0% || 17.6% |- | β[[Non-Hispanic whites|Non-Hispanic]] || N/A || 52.9% || 14.4% || 4.9% |- | [[African American|Black or African American]] || 14.0% || 39.1% || 56.4% || 48.1% |- | [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (of any race) || N/A || 7.6% || 31.2% || 47.0% |- | [[Asian American|Asian]] || β || 0.2% || 1.3% || 2.1% |} The [[2010 United States census]] counted 77,344 people, 24,475 households, and 16,912 families in the city. The [[population density]] was {{convert|8669.6|/sqmi}}. There were 28,358 housing units at an average density of {{convert|3178.7|/sqmi}}. The racial makeup was 17.59% (13,602) [[White (U.S. census)|White]], 48.07% (37,180) [[Black (U.S. census)|Black or African American]], 0.76% (588) [[Native American (U.S. census)|Native American]], 2.12% (1,637) [[Asian (U.S. census)|Asian]], 0.06% (48) [[Pacific Islander (U.S. census)|Pacific Islander]], 27.57% (21,323) from [[Race and ethnicity in the United States census#Race|other races]], and 3.83% (2,966) from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. census)|Hispanic or Latino]] of any race were 47.04% (36,379) of the population.<ref name="Census2010" /> The Hispanic population of 36,379 was the tenth-highest of any municipality in New Jersey and the proportion of 47.0% was the state's 16th-highest percentage.<ref>Staff. [http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/njs_population_grew_most_in_so.html "New census data shows N.J.'s population grew most in southern counties, became more racially diverse"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', February 3, 2011. Accessed October 22, 2013.</ref><ref>Mascarenhas, Rohan. [http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/census_data_shows_hispanics_as.html "Census data shows Hispanics as the largest minority in N.J."], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', February 3, 2011. Accessed October 22, 2013.</ref> The Puerto Rican population was 30.7%.<ref name="Census2010" /> Of the 24,475 households, 37.9% had children under the age of 18; 22.3% were married couples living together; 37.9% had a female householder with no husband present and 30.9% were non-families. Of all households, 24.8% were made up of individuals and 7.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.02 and the average family size was 3.56.<ref name="Census2010" /> 31.0% of the population were under the age of 18, 13.1% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and 7.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28.5 years. For every 100 females, the population had 94.7 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 91.0 males.<ref name="Census2010" /> The city of Camden was 47% Hispanic of any race, 44% non-Hispanic black, 6% non-Hispanic white, and 3% other. Camden is predominately populated by African Americans and Puerto Ricans.<ref name="Census2010" /> The Census Bureau's 2006β2010 [[American Community Survey]] showed that (in 2010 [[inflation adjustment|inflation-adjusted]] dollars) [[median household income]] was $27,027 (with a margin of error of +/β $912) and the median family income was $29,118 (+/β $1,296). Males had a median income of $27,987 (+/β $1,840) versus $26,624 (+/β $1,155) for females. The per capita income for the city was $12,807 (+/β $429). About 33.5% of families and 36.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 50.3% of those under age 18 and 26.2% of those age 65 or over.<ref>[https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/10_5YR/DP03/0600000US3400710000 DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics from the 2006β2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Camden city, Camden County, New Jersey]{{Dead link|date=March 2021|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}, [[United States Census Bureau]]. Accessed January 17, 2012.</ref> As of 2006, 52% of the city's residents lived in poverty, one of the highest rates in the nation.<ref>[http://www.lsnj.org/PDFs/budget/PovertyCityOfCamden041107.pdf "Poverty in the City of Camden"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201151525/http://www.lsnj.org/PDFs/budget/PovertyCityOfCamden041107.pdf|date=February 1, 2015}}, Legal Services of New Jersey, April 2007. Accessed July 3, 2011.</ref> The city had a median household income of $18,007, the lowest of all U.S. communities with populations of more than 65,000 residents.<ref>Fahim, Kareem. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/nyregion/05camden.html "Rethinking Revitalization; In Crumbling Camden, New Challenges for a Recovery Plan"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 5, 2006. Accessed February 17, 2011.</ref> A group of poor Camden residents were the subject of a ''[[20/20 (US television series)|20/20]]'' special on poverty in America broadcast on January 26, 2007, in which [[Diane Sawyer]] profiled the lives of three young children growing up in Camden.<ref>Diaz, Joseph. [https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2819991&page=1 "Waiting on the World to Change"], ''[[20/20 (American TV program)|20/20]]'', January 25, 2007. Accessed July 3, 2011.</ref> A follow-up was shown on November 9, 2007.<ref>Diaz, Joseph. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20091028184017/https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3837382&page=1 "Camden's Little Citizens With Big Dreams: Community Still Full of Children With Great Promise and Great Need"]}}, ''[[20/20 (American TV program)|20/20]]'', November 9, 2007, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of October 28, 2009. Accessed July 3, 2011.</ref> In 2011, Camden's unemployment rate was 19.6%, compared with 10.6% in Camden County as a whole.<ref>[http://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/audit/1112/lfmcd.pdf#page=5 2011 NJ Annual Average Labor Force Estimates by Municipality], [[New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development]] Labor Planning and Analysis, March 30, 2012. Accessed July 2, 2012.</ref> As of 2009, the unemployment rate in Camden was 19.2%, compared to the 10% overall unemployment rate for Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties and a rate of 8.4% in [[Philadelphia]] and the four surrounding counties in [[Delaware Valley|Southeastern Pennsylvania]].<ref>Staff. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=12C495F7E668D320&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "S. Jersey faring worse on jobs than Phila. area"], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', November 29, 2009. Accessed July 26, 2011. "The unemployment rate in Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester Counties was 10 percent in September, compared with 7.1 percent in Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware Counties.... The jobless rate of 19.2 percent in the troubled city of Camden weighs on the figure for South Jersey, but even without it the aggregate rate for the three counties which are home to nearly a quarter of the region's population was 9.6 percent. Add Philadelphia's 11 percent unemployment rate to the mix in Southeastern Pennsylvania and the overall rate there jumps to 8.4, still significantly below the rate in South Jersey."</ref>
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