Editing Monterey Park, California (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
| 1920 = 4108
| 1930 = 6406
| 1940 = 8531
| 1950 = 20395
| 1960 = 37821
| 1970 = 49166
| 1980 = 54338
| 1990 = 60738
| 2000 = 60051
| 2010 = 60269
| 2020 = 61096
| estyear = 2021
| estimate = 59667
| estref = <ref name="QuickFacts">{{cite web|title=State & County QuickFacts|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/montereyparkcitycalifornia/PST045222|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=January 22, 2023}}</ref>
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census by Decade|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=}}</ref><br>1860–1870<ref name=1870CensusCA1>{{Cite web|title= 1870 Census of Population - Population of Civil Divisions less than Counties - California - Almeda County to Sutter County |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1870/population/1870a-12.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref><ref name=1870CensusCA2>{{Cite web|title= 1870 Census of Population - Population of Civil Divisions less than Counties - California - Tehama County to Yuba County  |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1870/population/1870a-13.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> 1880-1890<ref name=1890CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 1890 Census of Population - Population of California by Minor Civil Divisions |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1890/bulletins/demographics/134-population-of-ca.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref><br> 1900<ref name=1900CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 1900 Census of Population - Population of California by Counties and Minor Civil Divisions |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1900/bulletins/demographic/10-population-ca.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> 1910<ref name=1910CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 1910 Census of Population - Supplement for California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/abstract/supplement-ca.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> 1920<ref name=1920CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 1920 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1920/bulletins/demographics/population-ca-number-of-inhabitants.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref><br> 1930<ref name=1930CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 1930 Census of Population - Number and Distribution of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1930/population-volume-1/03815512v1ch03.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> 1940<ref name=1940CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 1940 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1940/population-volume-1/33973538v1ch03.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> 1950<ref name=1950CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 1950 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-1/vol-01-08.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref><br> 1960<ref name=1960CensusCA1>{{Cite web|title= 1960 Census of Population - General population Characteristics - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1960/population-volume-1/vol-01-06-d.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref><ref name=1960CensusCA2>{{Cite web|title= 1960 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1960/population-volume-1/vol-01-06-c.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> 1970<ref name=1970CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 1970 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1970a_ca1-01.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> 1980<ref name=1980CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 1980 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1980a_caAB-01.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref><br> 1990<ref name=1990CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 1990 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/cen1990/cph2/cph-2-6.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
2000<ref name=2000CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 2000 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2003/dec/phc-3-6.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> 2010<ref name=2010CensusCA>{{Cite web|title= 2010 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2010/cph-2/cph-2-6.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref><br> 2020<ref name=2020CensusP2/>
}}

Monterey Park first appeared as a city in the [[1920 U.S. Census]].<ref name=1920CensusCA/>

===2020===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Monterey Park city, California – 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 – Monterey Park city, California |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=160XX00US0648914&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</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) – Monterey Park city, California |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US0648914&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</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) – Monterey Park city, California |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US0648914&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|4,362
|2,998
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,384
|7.26%
|4.97%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.90%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|182
|194
|style='background: #ffffe6; |358
|0.30%
|0.32%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.59%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|98
|51
|style='background: #ffffe6; |64
|0.16%
|0.08%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.10%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|36,912
|39,974
|style='background: #ffffe6; |40,353
|61.47%
|66.33%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |66.05%
|-
|[[Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|24
|19
|style='background: #ffffe6; |45
|0.04%
|0.03%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.07%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|61
|51
|style='background: #ffffe6; |174
|0.10%
|0.08%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.28%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|1,053
|764
|style='background: #ffffe6; |950
|1.75%
|1.27%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.55%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|17,359
|16,218
|style='background: #ffffe6; |16,768
|28.91%
|26.91%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |27.45%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''60,051'''
|'''60,269'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''61,096'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

===2010===
The [[2010 United States census]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=06:0648914|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808043521/http://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=06:0648914|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 8, 2014|title=2010 Census Interactive Population Search: CA - Monterey Park city|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=July 12, 2014}}</ref> reported that Monterey Park had a population of 60,269. The population density was {{convert|7,793.7|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of Monterey Park was 40,301 (66.9%) [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]] (47.7% Chinese, 5.8% Japanese, 4.4% Vietnamese, 1.9% Filipino, 1.3% Korean, 0.9% Thai, 0.8% Cambodian, 0.4% Burmese, 0.4% Indonesian, 0.3% Indian), 28 (0.05%) [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 11,680 (19.4%) [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (5.0% Non-Hispanic White),<ref name="quickfacts.census.gov">{{cite web|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0648914.html|title=Monterey Park (city) QuickFacts|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=March 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323002955/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0648914.html|archive-date=March 23, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> 252 (0.4%) [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 242 (0.4%) [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 6,022 (10.0%) from [[Race (United States census)|other races]], and 1,744 (2.9%) from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 16,218 persons (26.9%).

The Census reported that 60,039 people (99.6% of the population) lived in households, 41 (0.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 189 (0.3%) were institutionalized.

There were 19,963 households, out of which 6,315 (31.6%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 10,538 (52.8%) were [[marriage|opposite-sex married couples]] living together, 3,243 (16.2%) had a female householder with no husband present, 1,460 (7.3%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 651 (3.3%) [[POSSLQ|unmarried opposite-sex partnerships]], and 85 (0.4%) [[same-sex partnerships|same-sex married couples or partnerships]]. 3,641 households (18.2%) were made up of individuals, and 2,025 (10.1%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.01. There were 15,241 [[family (U.S. Census)|families]] (76.3% of all households); the average family size was 3.37.

The population was spread out, with 10,932 people (18.1%) under the age of 18, 5,180 people (8.6%) aged 18 to 24, 15,597 people (25.9%) aged 25 to 44, 16,904 people (28.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 11,656 people (19.3%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43.1 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.4 males.

There were 20,850 housing units at an average density of {{convert|2,696.2|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|units&nbsp;|units|}}, of which 11,058 (55.4%) were owner-occupied, and 8,905 (44.6%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.5%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.1%. 33,073 people (54.9% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 26,966 people (44.7%) lived in rental housing units.

According to the 2010 United States census, Monterey Park had a median household income of $56,014, with 15.2% of the population living below the federal poverty line.<ref name="quickfacts.census.gov"/>

===2009===
According to the 2009 [[American Community Survey]], Monterey Park is 43.7% [[Chinese American]], and is the city in the United States with the largest concentration of people of Chinese descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asian-nation.org/taiwanese.shtml|title=Taiwanese Americans : Asian-Nation :: Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues|website=www.asian-nation.org}}</ref> The Chinese American population in Monterey Park and San Gabriel Valley is relatively diverse in socio-economics and region of origin. The city has attracted immigrants from [[Taiwan]], as well as [[mainland Chinese]] and the [[overseas Chinese]] from [[Southeast Asia]]. There are also significant [[Japanese American|Japanese]], [[Vietnamese American|Vietnamese]] and [[Filipino American|Filipino]] communities living within Monterey Park.

While the multi-generational American-born Latino population was generally declining in Monterey Park, there has been a small new influx of Mexican immigrants (about one percent increase in the population).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=Search&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=monterey+park&_cityTown=monterey+park&_state=04000US06&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgs1=010&show_2003_tab=&redirect=Y|title=American FactFinder - Community Facts|publisher=United States Census Bureau|website=factfinder.census.gov|access-date=October 29, 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212050128/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=Search&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=monterey+park&_cityTown=monterey+park&_state=04000US06&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgs1=010&show_2003_tab=&redirect=Y|archive-date=February 12, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=16000US0648914&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US06%7C16000US0648914&_street=&_county=monterey+park&_cityTown=monterey+park&_state=04000US06&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=&_keyword=&_industry=|title=American FactFinder - Community Facts|publisher=United States Census Bureau|website=factfinder.census.gov|access-date=May 3, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200216042438/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=16000US0648914&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US06%7C16000US0648914&_street=&_county=monterey+park&_cityTown=monterey+park&_state=04000US06&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=&_keyword=&_industry=|archive-date=February 16, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===2000===
There were 19,564 households, out of which 31.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.4% were married couples living together, 15.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.1% were non-families. 17.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.06 and the average family size was 3.43.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laalmanac.com/cities/ci56.htm |title=Pamphlet |website=www.laalmanac.com |format=PDF}}</ref>

In the city, the population was spread out, with 21.3% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 17.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.3 males.

The median [[income]] for a household in the city was $40,724, and the median income for a family was $43,507. Males had a median income of $32,463 versus $29,057 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $17,661. About 12.4% of families and 15.6% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 22.6% of those under age 18 and 9.2% of those age 65 or over.

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