• 54% of the African American population lives in the South Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia are the states that have an African American population of 1 million or more.
• The number of US residents that are African American is 36.4 million people.
• African Americans make up 12.9% of the population.
• The median age for the African American population is 29.5 years.
• There are 3.9 million African American married couples.
• Amongst the population of African American families, 2 million are married couples with their own children under 18.
• There are 11.8 million African American children under the age of 18 in the US.
• 41% of African American children live in a home maintained by their mother, while 34% live in a two-parent household and 13% reside with a grand parent.
• In the US there are 823,500 black-owned businesses that generate $71 billion in revenues.
• African American owned businesses make up 4% of the nation's 20.8 million non-farm businesses and 27% of its 3 million minority owned firms.
• 38% of the nations African American owned businesses are owned by women, a higher percentage than any other minority ethnic group.
• 2.6 million African Americans are military veterans.
• 5.7 million African Americans own their own homes, which represents 46% of the African American population, this is a 1.4 million rise from the 1990 census.