Retiree Villages Top Pinpoint Demographics’ 2011 List of Zip Codes with the Highest Percentage of Female Residents
Woolwich, ME, February 19, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Four towns with large communities of retirees, as well as two New York City housing projects and the town outside of Fort Hood place in the top ten neighborhoods by zip code according to new 2011 forecast data released by Pinpoint Demographics.
The large retirement community of Sun City in Arizona placed first on the list. With a median age of 74, in 2011, it will have almost 20,000 female residents out of a total population of about 33,000.
Co-op City in the Bronx is a New York State housing cooperative with apartments in 35 buildings. The community includes three shopping centers, day-care facilities, children’s play areas and baseball fields. Brownsville, in Brooklyn, has the highest concentration of public housing in the nation. Both communities have high percentages of younger and minority women. Co-op City has about 23,000 women out of a population of slightly more than 39,000 and Brownsville has about 49,000 women out of more than 86,000 residents.
Both Gatesville and Decatur receive a bump in their female population from the way the census counts people in prisons and college dormitories. On the official day that the census is taken, April 1, all students living in dormitories are counted as part of the population where there dorm is located. Students who live in apartments can put either their apartment or their parents’ home, but many choose to list themselves at their apartment for the count.
This can have a large impact depending on the size of the community. For example, Decatur is the home of Agnes Scott College, an all-women’s college with about 950 students. However, Gatesville’s bump is much more dramatic. A community outside of Fort Hood, Gatesville has five of the state of Texas’ eight women’s prisons, including the female death row. The lone male prison in Gatesville is not enough to counterbalance the female populations.
The appearance of four retirement communities - Sun City, part of the city of Surprise, Ariz., in first place, Holiday City in Toms River, N.J., in seventh, and High Point in Delray Beach, Fla. and Laguna Woods in Laguna Hills, Calif. as nine and ten, respectively - on the list reflects the “graying” of America. This is a result of the United States’ changing demographics as people live longer and the Baby Boomers begin to retire in increasingly higher numbers. The Congressional Research Services’ 2006 report, The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States (authored by Laura B. Shrestha—a specialist in demography), noted, “the United States has been in the midst of a profound demographic change: the rapid aging of its population, as reflected by an increasing proportion of persons aged 65 and older.”
The U.S. Census Bureau noted that on July 1, 2005, “the median age of the population was 36.2 years - older than the highest median age ever recorded in a census (35.3 in Census 2000).” Among those over 40, women outnumber men. According to the Census Bureau, in 2005, “From about age 40 on, women were the majority. Among people in their nineties, the ratio of men to women was 38 to 100, reflecting the greater life expectancy of women than men.” Fewer seniors are married now than were in the past, which also contributes to a higher percentage of females. A 2010 survey conducted by the retirement community corporation Del Webb found that only 64% of older Baby Boomers are married.
Women, because of their longer life expectancy, often see retirement communities as an option for when their spouse dies. A 1998 study of why people choose retirement living confirms that women, seeking companionship in their later year of being single, either through widowhood or divorce, are attracted to retirement communities. According to the study’s authors, Karen M. Giblera, George P. Moschisb, and Euehun Leec, “Better-educated consumers are more likely to plan to move to a retirement community sometime in the future, perhaps reflecting a better awareness and understanding of the housing options available. Interest is also relatively higher among females, perhaps indicating their awareness of potential widowhood and the social life that other residents of a retirement housing community might provide at that time.”
Pinpoint Demographics, a division of Barnes Reports, is a leading demographics research firm located in Woolwich, Maine. Pinpoint Demographics provides the most current, accurate and cost-effective data population demographics, consumer spending, retail business and services businesses estimates for each of the 30,000+ U.S. zip codes. Pinpoint’s proprietary economic model uses exponential regression analysis to annually estimate 2011 and five year forecast 2016 populations, broken down by race, age, income, educational attainment and occupation.
Pinpoint Demographics’ databases are available in a number of products. The “America’s Neighborhoods” series are annual print handbooks of population and consumer spending databases by zip code or U.S. county. Pinpoint’s zip code databases are broken out by U.S. state and available for immediate purchase and download on its website www.pinpointdemographics.com. Free sample zip code data is available on www.uszipcodedemographics.com.
Top Ten Cities by Percentage of Females, 2011
1. Sun City, Ariz. 85351
2. Co-op City, Bronx, N.Y. 10475
3. Gatesville, Texas 76528
4. Decatur, Ga. 30030
5. Brownsville, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11212
6. Oakland, Chicago, Ill. 60653
7. Holiday City, Toms River, N.J. 08757
8. Washington, D.C. 20016
9. High Point, Delray Beach, Fla. 33484
10. Laguna Woods, Laguna Hills, Calif. 92653
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The large retirement community of Sun City in Arizona placed first on the list. With a median age of 74, in 2011, it will have almost 20,000 female residents out of a total population of about 33,000.
Co-op City in the Bronx is a New York State housing cooperative with apartments in 35 buildings. The community includes three shopping centers, day-care facilities, children’s play areas and baseball fields. Brownsville, in Brooklyn, has the highest concentration of public housing in the nation. Both communities have high percentages of younger and minority women. Co-op City has about 23,000 women out of a population of slightly more than 39,000 and Brownsville has about 49,000 women out of more than 86,000 residents.
Both Gatesville and Decatur receive a bump in their female population from the way the census counts people in prisons and college dormitories. On the official day that the census is taken, April 1, all students living in dormitories are counted as part of the population where there dorm is located. Students who live in apartments can put either their apartment or their parents’ home, but many choose to list themselves at their apartment for the count.
This can have a large impact depending on the size of the community. For example, Decatur is the home of Agnes Scott College, an all-women’s college with about 950 students. However, Gatesville’s bump is much more dramatic. A community outside of Fort Hood, Gatesville has five of the state of Texas’ eight women’s prisons, including the female death row. The lone male prison in Gatesville is not enough to counterbalance the female populations.
The appearance of four retirement communities - Sun City, part of the city of Surprise, Ariz., in first place, Holiday City in Toms River, N.J., in seventh, and High Point in Delray Beach, Fla. and Laguna Woods in Laguna Hills, Calif. as nine and ten, respectively - on the list reflects the “graying” of America. This is a result of the United States’ changing demographics as people live longer and the Baby Boomers begin to retire in increasingly higher numbers. The Congressional Research Services’ 2006 report, The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States (authored by Laura B. Shrestha—a specialist in demography), noted, “the United States has been in the midst of a profound demographic change: the rapid aging of its population, as reflected by an increasing proportion of persons aged 65 and older.”
The U.S. Census Bureau noted that on July 1, 2005, “the median age of the population was 36.2 years - older than the highest median age ever recorded in a census (35.3 in Census 2000).” Among those over 40, women outnumber men. According to the Census Bureau, in 2005, “From about age 40 on, women were the majority. Among people in their nineties, the ratio of men to women was 38 to 100, reflecting the greater life expectancy of women than men.” Fewer seniors are married now than were in the past, which also contributes to a higher percentage of females. A 2010 survey conducted by the retirement community corporation Del Webb found that only 64% of older Baby Boomers are married.
Women, because of their longer life expectancy, often see retirement communities as an option for when their spouse dies. A 1998 study of why people choose retirement living confirms that women, seeking companionship in their later year of being single, either through widowhood or divorce, are attracted to retirement communities. According to the study’s authors, Karen M. Giblera, George P. Moschisb, and Euehun Leec, “Better-educated consumers are more likely to plan to move to a retirement community sometime in the future, perhaps reflecting a better awareness and understanding of the housing options available. Interest is also relatively higher among females, perhaps indicating their awareness of potential widowhood and the social life that other residents of a retirement housing community might provide at that time.”
Pinpoint Demographics, a division of Barnes Reports, is a leading demographics research firm located in Woolwich, Maine. Pinpoint Demographics provides the most current, accurate and cost-effective data population demographics, consumer spending, retail business and services businesses estimates for each of the 30,000+ U.S. zip codes. Pinpoint’s proprietary economic model uses exponential regression analysis to annually estimate 2011 and five year forecast 2016 populations, broken down by race, age, income, educational attainment and occupation.
Pinpoint Demographics’ databases are available in a number of products. The “America’s Neighborhoods” series are annual print handbooks of population and consumer spending databases by zip code or U.S. county. Pinpoint’s zip code databases are broken out by U.S. state and available for immediate purchase and download on its website www.pinpointdemographics.com. Free sample zip code data is available on www.uszipcodedemographics.com.
Top Ten Cities by Percentage of Females, 2011
1. Sun City, Ariz. 85351
2. Co-op City, Bronx, N.Y. 10475
3. Gatesville, Texas 76528
4. Decatur, Ga. 30030
5. Brownsville, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11212
6. Oakland, Chicago, Ill. 60653
7. Holiday City, Toms River, N.J. 08757
8. Washington, D.C. 20016
9. High Point, Delray Beach, Fla. 33484
10. Laguna Woods, Laguna Hills, Calif. 92653
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