Article: DOING THE NUMBERS, CAPITAL REGION STYLE.(CAPITALAND RPT)

Think you know the area? Brush up on your Capital Region IQ with these statistics, gleaned from the 2000 census.Total number of Capital Region residents: 875,583Median age of a Capital Region resident:37.3 years.Total number of men in the Capital Region: 424,383 or 48.5% of the population. Women number 451,200 or 51.5% of the total.Men out-earn women by $9,846 with a full-time median income of $38,467, compared to $28,621 for women.79.4% of all Capital Region workers older than 16 drive alone to work. Only 9.9% carpool and 3.2% take public or other types of transportation, including taxis.The mean commute to work in the Capital Region is 22.7 minutes. The longest mean ...

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