It is more residents than 140 California cities have.įor comparison, surveys found that 4.9% of California adults identified as LGBT in 2015-2016. That is 37% of the total population and over 13,000 men. The survey was designed to guide social services programming. The high end of the range comes from a 2013 city survey. The low end of the range is an approximation based on census and other public survey data. The report suggests that between 30% and 40% of the city’s adults are gay men. There are also same-sex marriage data-quality issues involving opposite-sex couples who accidentally mismark the sex of one spouse, putting themselves in the same-sex category. There are limitations on the availability of some Census data for small cities. The Census survey that provides detailed West Hollywood data does not ask about sexual orientation, and the surveys that do ask do not focus on West Hollywood. Census and city survey data.įinding Census-like numbers about the city’s gay community is challenging. That is according to a new report by WeHo by the Numbers, based on U.S.
West Hollywood has more gay men than many California cities have residents.
