Table 1:
Child Population, Rhode Island, 1990

City/Town

Total
Population

Children
Under Age 18

Minority Children
Under age 18

N

%

%

Barrington

15,849

3,912

24.7

2.4

Bristol

21,625

4,380

20.3

4.4

Burrillville

16,230

4,479

27.6

0.8

Central Falls

17,637

4,810

27.3

49.3

Charlestown

6,478

1,575

24.3

5.3

Coventry

31,083

7,626

24.5

2.4

Cranston

76,060

14,673

19.3

8.1

Cumberland

29,038

6,427

22.1

3.4

East Greenwich

11,865

2,913

24.6

5.1

East Providence

50,380

10,657

21.2

12.1

Exeter

5,461

1,521

27.9

2.6

Foster

4,316

1,185

27.5

2.0

Glocester

9,227

2,526

27.4

1.6

Hopkinton

6,873

1,839

26.8

3.4

Jamestown

4,999

1,123

22.5

2.8

Johnston

26,542

5,332

20.1

3.9

Lincoln

18,045

3,890

21.6

3.6

Little Compton

3,339

750

22.5

2.7

Middletown

19,460

4,676

24.0

11.2

Narragansett

14,985

2,869

19.1

4.4

Newport

28,227

5,756

20.4

19.2

New Shoreham

836

163

19.5

3.1

North Kingstown

23,786

6,076

25.5

5.2

North Providence

32,090

5,655

17.6

5.9

North Smithfield

10,497

2,332

22.2

2.4

Pawtucket

72,644

16,719

23.0

21.2

Portsmouth

16,857

4,175

24.8

4.3

Providence

160,728

37,972

23.6

55.5

Richmond

5,351

1,565

29.2

3.6

Scituate

9,796

2,426

24.8

1.4

Smithfield

19,163

3,898

20.3

2.6

South Kingstown

24,631

4,770

19.4

7.8

Tiverton

14,312

3,166

22.1

1.7

Warren

11,385

2,452

21.5

2.7

Warwick

85,427

18,322

21.4

3.4

Westerly

21,605

4,988

23.1

3.0

West Greenwich

3,492

915

26.2

1.6

West Warwick

29,268

6,560

22.4

4.8

Woonsocket

43,877

10,617

24.2

14.5

STATE TOTAL

1,003,464

225,690

22.5

16.4

Core City

323,113

75,874

23.5

39.1

Remainder of State

680,351

149,816

22.0

4.9

* Core Cities include Central Falls, Newport, Providence, Pawtucket and Woonsocket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1990 Census of Population.

1 Source: STF3a table p15

2 Source: STF3a tables P8 and P12.

3 There are no tables for Hispanic by race and age in the STF3a files. We are estimating the White/Hispanic population under 18 as follows: The proportion of all Hispanic who are white times the number who are under 18 by city and town.

Minority is defined here by race and ethnicity groups used in the 1990 Census of Population: Black, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic.

The denominator is the number of children under 18 .

Last Update: 4/18/97 by JDC