Census numbers show The City is one of a kind

The Examiner today discusses the latest census figures, finding that "San Francisco is a magnet for well-educated white-collar workers and new immigrants, but its population of poor residents has grown and it has a lower percentage of households with children than any major county in the nation, according to new Census Bureau statistics released Tuesday."

"Perhaps, the most striking statistic — and one The City has been grappling with in the last year — is the extremely low number of children in The City. Only one in five city households has a child — the lowest figure of any major county in the nation. Supervisor Bevan Dufty chalked the figure up to poor school test scores and the fact that San Francisco has such a large lesbian and gay community, which traditionally has not had children in large numbers. But Dufty is hopeful that those numbers will reverse."

There is an additional piece in the Examiner about how this relates to housing. "In fact, only posh neighbor San Mateo County topped San Francisco's median home price of $661,904 in 2004 among 236 large counties around the nation. Hidalgo County had the lowest median price."