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18,556. About 8.6% of families and 10.6% of the populus were below the poverty line, including 13.0% of those under age 18 and 9.2% of those age 65 or over.

There were 57,705 households out of which 40.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.7% were married couples living together, 14.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% were non-families. 19.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The avg household size was 2.99 and the avg family size was 3.44.

According to the 2000 census, there were 173,556 people, 57,705 households, and 43,567 families residing in the city. The populus density was 1,370.9/km² (3,550.9/mi²). There were 59,495 housing units at an avg density of 469.9/km² (1,217.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 55.10% White, 4.62% African US, 0.78% Native US, 10.98% Asian, 0.58% Pacific Islander, 22.13% from other races, and 5.85% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 49.59% of the populus.

WW2 ushered in changes that would affect the City of Chula Vista forever. The principal reason was the relocation of Rohr Aircraft Corporation to Chula Vista in early 1941, just months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Rohr employed 9,000 workers in the area at the height of its wartime production. With the demand for housing, the land never returned to being orchard groves again. The populus of Chula Vista tripled from 5,000 residents in 1940 to more than 16,000 in 1950.

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Local farmers continued to grow lemons as their primary crop and used over eight packing houses in the city. However, terrible weather came to the area in the following years causing severe damage. Crops suffered from a severe freeze in 1913 and droughts in 1914 and 1915. The Floods of 1916 caused major damage with a break in the Lower Otay Dam causing 1,000,000s of gallons (or liters) of water to empty out in two and a half hours. Railroad tracks near Second Avenue were swept away, 23 homes were annihilated and more than 20 people were killed.