{"id":271,"date":"2011-06-01T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/06\/01\/2010-census-shows-nations-population-is-aging\/"},"modified":"2011-06-01T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T19:38:00","slug":"2010-census-shows-nations-population-is-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/06\/01\/2010-census-shows-nations-population-is-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Census Shows Nation&#8217;s Population is Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>Seven States Have Median Age Over 40<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>The U.S. Census Bureau released on May 26, 2011 a 2010 Census brief on our  nation&#8217;s changing age and sex composition that shows the nation grew  older while the male population grew faster than the female population  over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/briefs\/c2010br-03.pdf\">Age and Sex Composition: 2010<\/a>  [PDF], the median age of Americans is now 37.2, with seven states  recording a median age of 40 or older.  The brief also shows the male  population grew 9.9 percent between 2000 and 2010, while the female  population grew 9.5 percent. Of the total 2010 Census population, 157.0  million people were female (50.8 percent) and 151.8 million were male  (49.2 percent).<\/p>\n<p>In the 2010 Census, seven states had a median age of 40 or older: Maine  (42.7), Vermont (41.5), West Virginia (41.3), New Hampshire (41.1),  Florida (40.7), Pennsylvania (40.1) and Connecticut (40.0).  In both  1990 and 2000, West Virginia and Florida had the highest median age of  all states. Maine overtook West Virginia and Florida as the state with  the highest median age in 2010, while Utah remained the state with the  lowest median age.<\/p>\n<p>For more details visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/2010.census.gov\/news\/releases\/operations\/cb11-cn147.html\">http:\/\/2010.census.gov\/news\/releases\/operations\/cb11-cn147.html<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven States Have Median Age Over 40 The U.S. Census Bureau released on May 26, 2011 a 2010 Census brief on our nation&#8217;s changing age and sex composition that shows the nation grew older while the male population grew faster &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/06\/01\/2010-census-shows-nations-population-is-aging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,232],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL4O-4n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}