Available demographics compiled by Wilder Research Center, March 2002. Profiles of all 17 Saint Paul planning districts are available through Wilder Research Center's Community DataWorks.

Population trends, 1990-2000

• 19,772 people in 2000
• Slight decrease of 3% since 1990, compared to 5.5% growth in Saint Paul as a whole
• Greatest declines in preschoolers and elderly
• Slight increase in racial diversity, but remaining predominately white

Age profile changes since 1990

• Preschoolers (age 0-4) decreased 22% to 1,132
• School-age children (ages (5-17) increased 4% to 2,855
• Working-age adults (age 18-64) increased <1% to 13,924
• Elderly adults (age 65+) decreased 23% to 1,861

Racial diversity is changing little since 1990

• White population decreased from 96% to 92%
• Asian population increased from 2% to 3%
• Black population grew from 1% to 2%
• Hispanic population increased from 1% to 2%
• American Indian population remained at 1% of neighborhood residents
• 2% of residents are multi-racial
• For every 20 public school students living in Macalester-Groveland: 17 are White, 1 is Asian, 1 is Black, 1 is Hispanic, and fewer than 1 in 20 are American Indian

What do households look like?

• 2.22 persons per household (average), down from 2.33 in 1990
• 26% of households have children, down slightly from 28% in 1990
• 82% of children live in married-couple families, 15% in single-parent families, and 3% in other arrangements (primarily with grandparents)

Housing

• 8,228 occupied housing units (both owner-occupied and rental), 39 fewer than in 1990
• Of these occupied housing units, 2,301 are rental (a decrease of 58 units since 1990), and 5,927 are owner-occupied (an increase of 19 units since 1990)
• Vacancy rate of all housing units dropped to 2.0%, from 2.9% in 1990

Children and Youth

• Racial diversity - 16% of students attending public schools are children of color
• Cultural diversity - English is not the primary language spoken at home for 6% of public schoolchildren
• Few are low-income - 12% qualify for free or reduced-price school lunch, compared to 62% in Saint Paul as a whole
• One of five districts with the lowest number of child maltreatment reports in Saint Paul; too few for the City to release as public information. On the whole, Saint Paul has 16.1 reports per 1,000 children.

Elderly (age 65+)

• 38% live alone
• 3% are people of color, compared to 11% of children and youth in the neighborhood

Crime rate changes

• Less violent crime and more property crime than Saint Paul as a whole
• Crime rates increased from 1996 to 2000
• Violent crime increased from 80 to 187 per 100,000 people, as compared to 851 in Saint Paul as a whole
• Property crime increased from 3,814 to 11,840 per 100,000 people, compared to 6,439 in Saint Paul as a whole.