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The American Energy Consumer







Table 7-2.Distribution of Households by Income and Race1972 (percent)
Percent of all households Percentage distribution
Income class All households Black Other Black Other
All households 100 9 90 100 100
Poor 100 23 76 46 15
Nonpoor 100 6 93 54 85
Under $12,000 100 8 91 37 43
$12,000-15,999 100 5 95 10 20
$16,000 and over 100 3 95 8 22
Source: Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies' Lifestyles and Energy Surveys.


Table 7-3.Income Distribution of Black and White Families, 1951, 1961, 1971 (Income in 1971 dollars) (percent)
1951 1961 1971
Income class Black White Black White Black White
All families 100 100 100 100 100 100
Under $3,000 47 17 35 13 19 7
$3,000-4,999 27 20 22 12 18 9
$5,000-6,999 15 26 17 15 15 11
$7,000-9,999 8 21 14 25 18 19
$10,000-11,999 2 7 5 12 9 13
$12,000-14,999 1 5 4 11 9 15
$15,000 and over 5 4 13 12 26
Source: Derived by the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies from U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-23, No. 46, The Social and Economic Status of the Black Population in the United States, 1972, July 1973, Table 9, p. 19.


Footnotes

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a Race data are for 1970 and ethnic origin data are for 1972, accounting for the difference in the total population.

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b Includes Danish, Finnish, Swedish, and others not large enough to present separately as well as persons who reported they were of multiple origin.

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a For many, characteristics data on only the poor and nonpoor are available, but in some instances the lower middle among the nonpoor can be shown separately.

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b Households include, besides families, single person households and other households in which unrelated persons live.

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a For this and succeeding tables in Chapter 7, "Race" refers to black and all other races combined.

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b Includes all races except black.

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a Less than 0.5 percent.

TOTAL ENERGY USE

Black households used 1.5 trillion Btu's or 7 percent of the electricity, natural gas, and gasoline used by all private households in 1972-73. This was less than their proportionate share of the population (11 percent).

Blacks used 11 percent of natural gas but a much smaller proportion of electricity (6 percent) and of gasoline (5 percent) (Table 7-4). In line with other households in the poor and lower middle income groups, heating