The stock market crash of 1929 greatly affected life in the 1930s. Before 1929, the economy was flourishing and families bought homes and cars in record numbers, often on credit. As a result of the stock market crash, many families lost their homes and one-quarter of the workforce lost their jobs.
The population density in Pensacola is 563% higher than Florida. The median age in Pensacola is 1% lower than Florida. In Pensacola 66.03% of the population is Caucasian. In Pensacola 25.72% of the population is African American. In Pensacola 3.05% of the population is Asian.
Most of the foreign-born Haitians arrived during the 1970s. Today, Florida has the largest number of people of Haitian heritage. In 2000, Florida had 182,224 foreign-born Haitians, 43.5% of the total foreign-born population from Haiti in the United States (this number did not include American-born Haitians). New York had the second-largest population of foreign-born Haitians, with 125,475, approximately 30% of the total.