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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