Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 Geographic area: Las Cruces city, New Mexico [For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text] Subject Number    Percent Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,267 100.0 SEX AND AGE Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,036 48.5 Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,231 51.5 Under 5 years  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,195 7.0 5 to 9 years  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,251 7.1 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,054 6.8 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,244 8.4 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,771 11.8 25 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,981 13.4 35 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,976 13.4 45 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,265 11.1 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,972 4.0 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,837 3.8 65 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,280 7.1 75 to 84 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,306 4.5 85 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,135 1.5 Median age (years). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.2 (X) 18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,618 74.9 Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,501 35.7 Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,117 39.2 21 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,378 67.8 62 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,447 15.4 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,721 13.1 Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,171 5.6 Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,550 7.5 RACE One race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,224 95.9 White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,248 69.0 Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,738 2.3 American Indian and Alaska Native. . . . . . . . . . . 1,289 1.7 Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863 1.2 Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 0.3 Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 0.3 Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 0.1 Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 0.2 Korean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 0.1 Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 - Other Asian¹ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 0.2 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . 55 0.1 Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 - Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 - Samoan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 - Other Pacific Islander²  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 - Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,031 21.6 Two or more races  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,043 4.1 Race alone or in combination with one or more other races:³ White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,919 72.6 Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,154 2.9 American Indian and Alaska Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,993 2.7 Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,286 1.7 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . . . 160 0.2 Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,985 24.2 Subject Number    Percent HISPANIC OR LATINO AND RACE Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,267 100.0 Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,421 51.7 Mexican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,155 32.5 Puerto Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 0.4 Cuban  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 0.1 Other Hispanic or Latino  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,924 18.7 Not Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,846 48.3 White alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,208 42.0 RELATIONSHIP Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,267 100.0 In households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,868 96.8 Householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,184 39.3 Spouse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,355 16.6 Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,934 28.2 Own child under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,464 22.2 Other relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,842 5.2 Under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,672 2.3 Nonrelatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,553 7.5 Unmarried partner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,043 2.8 In group quarters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,399 3.2 Institutionalized population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,147 1.5 Noninstitutionalized population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,252 1.7 HOUSEHOLD BY TYPE Total households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,184 100.0 Family households (families). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,130 62.1 With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 8,881 30.4 Married-couple family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,355 42.3 With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 5,241 18.0 Female householder, no husband present . . . . . 4,409 15.1 With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 2,890 9.9 Nonfamily households  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,054 37.9 Householder living alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,138 27.9 Householder 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,609 8.9 Households with individuals under 18 years . . . . . 9,874 33.8 Households with individuals 65 years and over  . . 6,841 23.4 Average household size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.46 (X) Average family size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.05 (X) HOUSING OCCUPANCY Total housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,682 100.0 Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,184 92.1 Vacant housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,498 7.9 For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 0.7 Homeowner vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 (X) Rental vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.3 (X) HOUSING TENURE Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,184 100.0 Owner-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,960 58.1 Renter-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,224 41.9 Average household size of owner-occupied units. 2.60 (X) Average household size of renter-occupied units . 2.28 (X) - Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. ¹Other Asian alone, or two or more Asian categories. ²Other Pacific Islander alone, or two or more Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander categories. ³In combination with one or more of the other races listed. The six numbers may add to more than the total population and the six percentages may add to more than 100 percent because individuals may report more than one race. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000. U.S. Census Bureau 1

Table DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000 Geographic area: Las Cruces city, New Mexico [Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text] Subject Number    Percent SCHOOL ENROLLMENT Population 3 years and over enrolled in school. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,356 100.0 Nursery school, preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,091 4.3 Kindergarten. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,062 4.2 Elementary school (grades 1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,652 34.1 High school (grades 9-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,056 16.0 College or graduate school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,495 41.4 EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT Population 25 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 43,950 100.0 Less than 9th grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,377 10.0 9th to 12th grade, no diploma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,261 9.7 High school graduate (includes equivalency). . . . . 9,766 22.2 Some college, no degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,207 23.2 Associate degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,841 6.5 Bachelor’s degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,184 16.3 Graduate or professional degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,314 12.1 Percent high school graduate or higher . . . . . . . . . 80.3 (X) Percent bachelor’s degree or higher . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.4 (X) MARITAL STATUS Population 15 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 58,516 100.0 Never married  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,747 33.7 Now married, except separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,163 46.4 Separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,248 2.1 Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,580 6.1 Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,840 4.9 Divorced  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,778 11.6 Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,887 6.6 GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,508 100.0 Grandparent responsible for grandchildren  . . . . . . 730 48.4 VETERAN STATUS Civilian population 18 years and over . . 55,653 100.0 Civilian veterans  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,123 14.6 DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION Population 5 to 20 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,992 100.0 With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,607 8.9 Population 21 to 64 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,428 100.0 With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,373 18.2 Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.7 (X) No disability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,055 81.8 Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.0 (X) Population 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 9,488 100.0 With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,940 41.5 RESIDENCE IN 1995 Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . 69,162 100.0 Same house in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,859 44.6 Different house in the U.S. in 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,763 53.2 Same county  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,192 29.2 Different county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,571 24.0 Same state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,182 10.4 Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,389 13.6 Elsewhere in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,540 2.2 Subject Number    Percent NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,483 100.0 Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,671 89.5 Born in United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,675 88.2 State of residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,779 46.7 Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,896 41.5 Born outside United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996 1.3 Foreign born. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,812 10.5 Entered 1990 to March 2000  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,509 3.4 Naturalized citizen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,371 4.5 Not a citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,441 6.0 REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN Total (excluding born at sea). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,812 100.0 Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641 8.2 Asia  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696 8.9 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 0.7 Oceania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 0.1 Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,278 80.4 Northern America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 1.7 LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,162 100.0 English only  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,211 59.6 Language other than English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,951 40.4 Speak English less than ²very well²  . . . . . . . . 8,592 12.4 Spanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,139 37.8 Speak English less than ²very well²  . . . . . . . . 8,212 11.9 Other Indo-European languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,093 1.6 Speak English less than ²very well²  . . . . . . . . 151 0.2 Asian and Pacific Island languages. . . . . . . . . . . 371 0.5 Speak English less than ²very well²  . . . . . . . . 152 0.2 ANCESTRY (single or multiple) Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,483 100.0 Total ancestries reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,146 102.2 Arab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 0.4 Czech¹. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 0.4 Danish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 0.4 Dutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756 1.0 English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,586 7.5 French (except Basque)¹ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,427 1.9 French Canadian¹ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 0.5 German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,620 10.2 Greek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 0.1 Hungarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 0.3 Irish¹. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,166 6.9 Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,355 1.8 Lithuanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 0.1 Norwegian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788 1.1 Polish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852 1.1 Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 0.2 Russian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 0.7 Scotch-Irish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,133 1.5 Scottish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,003 1.3 Slovak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 - Subsaharan African. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 0.3 Swedish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814 1.1 Swiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 0.3 Ukrainian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 0.1 United States or American. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,069 4.1 Welsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528 0.7 West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) . . . . . . . . 51 0.1 Other ancestries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,325 58.2 -Represents zero or rounds to zero.    (X) Not applicable. ¹The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsa- tian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. U.S. Census Bureau 2

Table DP-3. Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics: 2000 Geographic area: Las Cruces city, New Mexico [Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text] Subject Number    Percent EMPLOYMENT STATUS Population 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,610 100.0 In labor force  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,935 60.6 Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,799 60.4 Employed  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,866 55.3 Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,933 5.1 Percent of civilian labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.4 (X) Armed Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 0.2 Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,675 39.4 Females 16 years and over  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,057 100.0 In labor force  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,866 56.1 Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,851 56.1 Employed  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,456 51.4 Own children under 6 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,042 100.0 All parents in family in labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,530 58.4 COMMUTING TO WORK Workers 16 years and over  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,497 100.0 Car, truck, or van - - drove alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,434 77.6 Car, truck, or van - - carpooled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,435 14.1 Public transportation (including taxicab) . . . . . . . . . 179 0.6 Walked. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895 2.8 Other means. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 1.6 Worked at home  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,047 3.3 Mean travel time to work (minutes)¹ . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.1 (X) Employed civilian population 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,866 100.0 OCCUPATION Management, professional, and related occupations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,769 36.9 Service occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,812 18.2 Sales and office occupations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,046 28.4 Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . 76 0.2 Construction, extraction, and maintenance occupations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,698 8.5 Production, transportation, and material moving occupations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,465 7.7 INDUSTRY Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 1.3 Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,043 6.4 Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,423 4.5 Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633 2.0 Retail trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,052 12.7 Transportation and warehousing, and utilities . . . . 982 3.1 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893 2.8 Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,609 5.0 Professional, scientific, management, adminis- trative, and waste management services . . . . . . . 2,499 7.8 Educational, health and social services  . . . . . . . . . 9,560 30.0 Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,371 10.6 Other services (except public administration)  . . . . 1,475 4.6 Public administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,899 9.1 CLASS OF WORKER Private wage and salary workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,415 64.1 Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,007 28.3 Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,349 7.4 Unpaid family workers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 0.3 Subject Number    Percent INCOME IN 1999 Households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,101 100.0 Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,666 16.0 $10,000 to $14,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,247 11.2 $15,000 to $24,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,287 14.7 $25,000 to $34,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,030 13.8 $35,000 to $49,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,939 17.0 $50,000 to $74,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,483 15.4 $75,000 to $99,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,085 7.2 $100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957 3.3 $150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 0.6 $200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 0.7 Median household income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,375 (X) With earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,840 78.5 Mean earnings (dollars)¹ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,353 (X) With Social Security income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,143 24.5 Mean Social Security income (dollars)¹  . . . . . . . 11,057 (X) With Supplemental Security Income . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,288 4.4 Mean Supplemental Security Income (dollars)¹ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,456 (X) With public assistance income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,600 5.5 Mean public assistance income (dollars)¹  . . . . . 2,740 (X) With retirement income  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,746 19.7 Mean retirement income (dollars)¹. . . . . . . . . . . . 19,002 (X) Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,266 100.0 Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,009 11.0 $10,000 to $14,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,550 8.5 $15,000 to $24,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,211 12.1 $25,000 to $34,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,578 14.1 $35,000 to $49,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,464 19.0 $50,000 to $74,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,483 19.1 $75,000 to $99,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,784 9.8 $100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849 4.6 $150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 0.8 $200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 1.0 Median family income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,670 (X) Per capita income (dollars)¹ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,704 (X) Median earnings (dollars): Male full-time, year-round workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,923 (X) Female full-time, year-round workers  . . . . . . . . . . . 21,759 (X) Subject Number below poverty level Percent below poverty level POVERTY STATUS IN 1999 Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,145 17.2 With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,619 26.8 With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 1,336 31.5 Families with female householder, no husband present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,755 41.4 With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,591 51.2 With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 778 62.1 Individuals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,793 23.3 18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,100 20.6 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917 9.7 Related children under 18 years  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,599 30.7 Related children 5 to 17 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,802 29.2 Unrelated individuals 15 years and over. . . . . . . . . 6,002 37.2 -Represents zero or rounds to zero.    (X) Not applicable. ¹If the denominator of a mean value or per capita value is less than 30, then that value is calculated using a rounded aggregate in the numerator. See text. Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. U.S. Census Bureau 3

Table DP-4. Profile of Selected Housing Characteristics: 2000 Geographic area: Las Cruces city, New Mexico [Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text] Subject Number    Percent Total housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,652 100.0 UNITS IN STRUCTURE 1-unit, detached. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,874 53.3 1-unit, attached  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,896 6.0 2 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,480 4.7 3 or 4 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,135 6.7 5 to 9 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,143 3.6 10 to 19 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,338 4.2 20 or more units  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,738 8.7 Mobile home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,930 12.4 Boat, RV, van, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 0.4 YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT 1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982 3.1 1995 to 1998  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,250 10.3 1990 to 1994  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,205 10.1 1980 to 1989  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,523 23.8 1970 to 1979  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,151 19.4 1960 to 1969  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,306 13.6 1940 to 1959  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,915 15.5 1939 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,320 4.2 ROOMS 1 room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702 2.2 2 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,254 7.1 3 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,569 11.3 4 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,629 20.9 5 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,423 23.5 6 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,361 16.9 7 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,200 10.1 8 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,526 4.8 9 or more rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988 3.1 Median (rooms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.9 (X) Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,137 100.0 YEAR HOUSEHOLDER MOVED INTO UNIT 1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,760 30.1 1995 to 1998  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,463 29.0 1990 to 1994  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,220 14.5 1980 to 1989  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,731 12.8 1970 to 1979  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,915 6.6 1969 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,048 7.0 VEHICLES AVAILABLE None  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,119 7.3 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,534 39.6 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,385 35.6 3 or more  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,099 17.5 HOUSE HEATING FUEL Utility gas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,021 75.6 Bottled, tank, or LP gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979 3.4 Electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,786 19.9 Fuel oil, kerosene, etc  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - Coal or coke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 0.8 Solar energy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 0.2 Other fuel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 0.1 No fuel used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 0.2 SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS Lacking complete plumbing facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 0.4 Lacking complete kitchen facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 0.4 No telephone service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635 2.2 Subject Number    Percent OCCUPANTS PER ROOM Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,137 100.0 1.00 or less. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,506 94.4 1.01 to 1.50  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899 3.1 1.51 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732 2.5 Specified owner-occupied units . . . . . . . . 13,389 100.0 VALUE Less than $50,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786 5.9 $50,000 to $99,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,396 55.2 $100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,449 25.8 $150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,155 8.6 $200,000 to $299,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516 3.9 $300,000 to $499,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 0.5 $500,000 to $999,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 0.1 $1,000,000 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,200 (X) MORTGAGE STATUS AND SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTS With a mortgage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,905 66.5 Less than $300  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 0.6 $300 to $499  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734 5.5 $500 to $699  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,017 15.1 $700 to $999  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,381 25.3 $1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,143 16.0 $1,500 to $1,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 2.6 $2,000 or more  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 1.5 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825 (X) Not mortgaged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,484 33.5 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 (X) SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTS AS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN 1999 Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,579 41.7 15.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,258 16.9 20.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,674 12.5 25.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,029 7.7 30.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723 5.4 35.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,005 15.0 Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 0.9 Specified renter-occupied units . . . . . . . . 12,085 100.0 GROSS RENT Less than $200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835 6.9 $200 to $299 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842 7.0 $300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,959 41.0 $500 to $749 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,547 29.4 $750 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983 8.1 $1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 2.7 $1,500 or more  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 0.4 No cash rent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542 4.5 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 (X) GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN 1999 Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,709 14.1 15.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,528 12.6 20.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,351 11.2 25.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,157 9.6 30.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874 7.2 35.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,576 37.9 Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890 7.4 -Represents zero or rounds to zero.    (X) Not applicable. Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. U.S. Census Bureau 4