Ontario County median age is highest in area

Andrew Green//July 1, 2016//

Andrew Green//July 1, 2016//

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With a median age of 43.6 and 18.3 percent of the total population aged 65 years or older, Ontario County residents were the oldest among those of Rochester-area counties in July 2015, according to new U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released June 23. The median age in the U.S. was 37.8 in 2015, and 14.9 percent of its population was age 65 years or older, census figures show. The nation’s only county with a majority of the population age 65 or older is Sumter, Fla., where 54.8 percent had reached that milestone and where the median age was 66.6 years on July 1, 2015.

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