Americans Without Health Insurance by Characteristic, 2012
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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