Weighted density and households with children

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Tue, 02/03/2009 - 11:37pm

There is a stereotype that dense places are filled with singles and childless couples while low-density, suburban cities are filled with families with children.

 I'm sure this stereotype is true if one compares central cities to suburbs.  It's true for Austin , for example.

 Children make up less than 15% of the population of San Francisco proper.*

But I was curious whether this stereotype holds when we compare apples to apples -- i.e., urbanized areas to urbanized areas....


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