(New York City) A new study of US Census Bureau statistics shows that nearly two-thirds of New York City’s same-sex couples live outside of Manhattan including 92-percent of those raising children.

The results were released Tuesday by the Williams Institute, a research facility at the University of California Los Angeles.

The study was based on data from Census 2000. It found there are nearly 26,000 same-sex couples in New York City, but that 62-percent live outside of Manhattan.

“We need to look beyond Will and Grace to understand the lives of gay and lesbian New Yorkers,” said study co-author and Senior Research Fellow Gary Gates.

Census data show that New York City¹s same-sex couples are raising an estimated 8,400 children in their homes.

These families are economically disadvantaged the study found. Average household incomes were between 7-percent for Brooklyn and 36-percent for Staten Island lower than their married counterparts.

They are also less likely than their married counterparts to own their own homes in every borough except Manhattan.

There are some notable differences in the characteristics of same-sex couples among the five boroughs the study found.

While nearly half of same-sex couples are raising children in the Bronx, only 4-percent of same-sex couples in Manhattan have children.

While same-sex male couples outnumber female couples by a 3-to-1 margin in Manhattan, the proportions are fairly even in Queens and Staten Island and female couples outnumber male couples in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

More than 4-in-10 individuals in same-sex couples are Latino in the Bronx, the only borough where those in same-sex couples are more likely to be non-white than those in different-sex married couples.

Individuals in same-sex couples in the Bronx also have lower educational levels and lower household incomes than their different-sex married counterparts, characteristics unique to that borough.