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Calipatria has a population of 7260. 78% of Calipatria’s inhabitants are Male, and 22 are female. 26.8% of Calipatria is married and 62.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $156,086, and the average rent is $744. Household median income in Calipatria is $37,196, and the individual median income is $2,499. Calipatria’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(73.2%), Other(35.6%), White(34.5%), Black(16.8%), Multiple(10.2%), Native(1.3%), Asian(1.1%), Pacific(0.5%).


At the 2000 census there were 7,289 people in 899 households, including 756 families, in the city. The population density was 1,965.8 inhabitants per square mile (759.0/km2). There were 961 housing units at an average density of 259.2 per square mile (100.1/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 32.4% White, 21.3% Black or African American, 0.7% Native American, 0.6% Asian, <0.1% Pacific Islander, 42.7% from other races, and 2.3% from two or more races.


57.4% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Of the 899 households 50.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.2% were married couples living together, 17.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.8% were non-families. 14.1% of households were one person and 5.6% were one person aged 65 or older.


The average household size was 3.6 and the average family size was 3.9. The age distribution was 16.3% under the age of 18, 12.3% from 18 to 24, 52.6% from 25 to 44, 15.0% from 45 to 64, and 3.8% 65 or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 363.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 497.5 males. The median income for a household in the city was $60,962, and the median family income was $61,302.


Males had a median income of $61,350 versus $50,063 for females. The per capita income for the city was $43,970. About 2.4% of families and 2.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 28.9% of those under age 18 and 17.8% of those age 65 or over. Calipatria is one of the state's poorest cities in income per capita due to agricultural paychecks and a declined economy in the 1990s.


Hispanics, mostly of Mexican descent, comprise three-fourths of residents (excluding the multiracial body of state prison convicts). The city was first called Sante Patria (as in "Saint of the Motherland") and was founded by Irish American and Irish Mexican soldiers, who deserted both in the Mexican–American War (1850s) and from the Union and/or Confederate armies after the American Civil War (1860s).


Calipatria also has a large Arab population with origins from Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, descendants of agriculture laborers in the 1920s.


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