The changing suburbs

The traditional image of the San Fernando Valley as "America's Suburb" remains alive and well in the cities of Burbank and San Fernando, which are still made up largely of family households with married partners and school-age children, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau findings. Tony Castro in the Daily News.

But area cities Glendale, Moorpark, Santa Clarita and Simi Valley may have taken over the American suburban moniker, with an even heavier proportion of U.S.-born married families with children.

Meanwhile, the heavily Latino city of San Fernando reported almost twice as many female-householder families with no husband present than the next-highest among those six communities - and a much greater fertility rate among women, especially those 15 to 19 years of old.