{"id":9526,"date":"2011-11-11T05:31:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=9526"},"modified":"2011-11-10T16:41:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T21:41:59","slug":"higher-incomes-disability-rates-for-raleigh-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2011\/11\/11\/higher-incomes-disability-rates-for-raleigh-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Incomes, Disability Rates for Raleigh Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Raleigh will celebrate Veterans Day with a parade and wreath laying ceremony. Here are some interesting statistics on the makeup of the local veteran population, based on the latest Census data:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9527\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9527\" title=\"veteran_military\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/veteran_military-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Robert Couse-Baker.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seven percent of Raleigh population is veterans \u2014an estimated 23,434 people.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh&#8217;s black veteran population is 32.4 percent, which is higher than the 27.3 percent of residents who identify themselves as black.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of age, most of Raleigh&#8217;s veterans, 33.4 percent, are 35 to 54 years old. The smallest age group, 13 percent, is 18 to 35.<\/p>\n<p>Far more Raleigh veterans (21 percent) are disabled compared to the non-veteran rate of 8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a third of Raleigh veterans, the largest group, fought in Vietnam compared to 5 percent, the smallest group, who fought in WWII.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans earn more on average than non-veterans. In the past 12 months, veterans&#8217; median income measures $39,032, compared to $26,807 for non-veterans.<\/p>\n<p>In the past 12 months, 4 percent of Raleigh\u2019s veterans&#8217; incomes fell below poverty status<\/p>\n<p>compared to the 17 percent of nonveterans.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate of Raleigh veterans slightly exceeds that of non-veterans \u2013 11 percent of veterans compared to 10 percent of non-veterans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Census data show most of Raleigh\u2019s veterans are more likely to be disabled and earn a higher median income than average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24019,"featured_media":9527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}