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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 2012 (EMBARGO LIFTED) Memphis Household Income at $34,960 in 2011, American Community Survey Shows The median household income in Memphis was $34,960 in 2011, compared with  the national figure of $50,502, according to statistics released today from the *2011 American Community Survey* by the  U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, 21.0 percent of people in Memphis did not have  health insurance coverage, compared with 15.1 percent nationally. A selected  profile of Memphis appears below, including statistics on education, housing  and the foreign-born. "The American Community Survey provides a wide range of important  statistics about our nation's people, housing and economy for all communities  in the country - including Memphis," said Thomas Mesenbourg, the Census  Bureau's acting director. "The results are used by everyone from retailers,  homebuilders and police departments, to town and city planners." The  survey is the only source of local estimates for most of the 40 topics it  covers, such as educational attainment, housing, employment, commuting,  language spoken at home, nativity, ancestry and selected monthly homeowner  costs down to the smallest communities. Other selected highlights for Memphis: Education In 2011, 41.2 percent of the preschool age population was enrolled in school, which was not significantly different from 47.4 percent in the nation as a whole.
  Among Memphis's 25-and-older population, 83.4 percent completed       high school or more, compared with 85.9 percent in the nation as a whole.
  Meanwhile, 24.5 percent of the 25-and-older population had a       bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 28.5 percent nationally. Housing In 2011, the median value for an owner-occupied home was $96,000. In       the nation as a whole, the value was $173,600.

  In 2011, the median gross rent (rent plus utilities) was $785,       compared with $871 in the nation as a whole. Foreign-Born  Population About 6.6 percent of people in Memphis were foreign-born, compared       with 13.0 percent in the nation as a whole. More information about Memphis's social, economic and housing  characteristics, as well as information on other geographies, can be found on  the Census Bureau's *American FactFinder* website. The 2011 American  Community Survey one-year estimates are available for the nation, all 50  states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, every congressional district,  every metropolitan area, and all counties and places with populations of 65,000  or more. Estimates for areas with smaller populations will be available later  this year.
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