Percent of Americans Without Health Insurance by Characteristic: 2012
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
The following table lists the percent of Americans without health insurance for 2012 by characteristic, including age, race and ethnicity, region, nativity, and work status.
| Characteristic | Percent |
|---|---|
| Total | 15.4% |
| Family status | |
| In families | 14.2 |
| Householder | 14.7 |
| Related children under 18 | 8.8 |
| Related children under 6 | 8.3 |
| In unrelated subfamilies | 23.2 |
| Unrelated individual | 20.7 |
| Race and ethnicity | |
| White | 14.7 |
| White, Non-Hispanic | 11.1 |
| Black | 19.0 |
| Asian | 15.1 |
| Hispanic1 | 29.1 |
| Age | |
| Under 18 years | 8.9 |
| 19 to 25 years | 27.2 |
| 26 to 34 years | 27.2 |
| 35 to 44 years | 21.1 |
| 45 to 64 years | 16.2 |
| 65 years and over | 1.5 |
| Nativity | |
| Native | 13.0 |
| Foreign born | 32.0 |
| Naturalized citizen | 18.3 |
| Not a citizen | 43.4 |
| Region | |
| Northeast | 10.8 |
| Midwest | 11.9 |
| South | 18.6 |
| West | 17.0 |
| Work Status | |
| All workers | 19.5 |
| Worked full-time | 15.5 |
| Less than full-time | 27.7 |
| Did not work at least one week | 25.8 |
1. Hispanics may be of any race.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2013.
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