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Bethlehem Facts
Population (year 2000): 71,329, Est. population in July 2004: 72,441 (+1.6% change)
Males: 34,091 (47.8%), Females: 37,238 (52.2%)
Land area: 19.3 square miles
Zip codes: 18015, 18017, 18018, 18020.
Median resident age: 36.2 years
Median household income: $35,815 (year 2000)
Median house value: $97,400 (year 2000)
Races in Bethlehem:
White Non-Hispanic (74.9%)
Hispanic (18.2%)
Other race (9.4%)
Black (3.6%)
Two or more races (2.6%)
Chinese (0.6%)
Asian Indian (0.6%)
American Indian (0.6%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
Ancestries: German (22.2%), Irish (12.1%), Italian (9.4%), English (5.4%), Polish (4.6%), Hungarian (4.1%).
For population 25 years and over in Bethlehem
High school or higher: 78.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 23.8%
Graduate or professional degree: 9.6%
Unemployed: 8.0%
Mean travel time to work: 20.2 minutes
For population 15 years and over in Bethlehem city
Never married: 32.2%
Now married: 48.1%
Separated: 2.4%
Widowed: 9.2%
Divorced: 8.2%
6.1% Foreign born (2.0% Asia, 1.9% Europe, 1.6% Latin America).
Population change in the 1990s: -689 (-1.0%).
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