Alameda County, CA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Alameda County, California Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Alameda County is 737.57 square miles. There are on average 1,956 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,443,741 people living in the county within 523,366 households (averaging 2.71 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,491,482 with an estimated 3.3% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Alameda County, CA was $26,680. By 2007 the income was $48,679. The average income in each household was $70,217 in 2008. The percentage of Alameda County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 10.4%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $70,761 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $61,866 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 567,364 housing units within the county, a change of 27,181 from 2000 (or about 5.0%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 54.7%. The median value of each house was about $303,100 in the county in 2000. 1,333 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $328,891 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Alameda County births in the year 2006 was 21,066 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 9,308. Infant deaths that year numbered 91.

In 2007, Alameda County, CA jobs totaled 918,292 across all industries. This was a change of 18,293 jobs from 2000. The number of Alameda County jobs in government in 2007 was 118,354. Workers traveled an average of 30.8 minutes to work each day.

There were 120,293 businesses in Alameda County in 2002. These include 32.5% of businesses listed as owned by women, 8.0% of businesses owned by blacks, 8.8% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 20.7% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.2% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Alameda County devoted to farming was 204,633 acres in 2007.

In 2000 36.8% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. The percent of the county's population who were born in a foreign country was 27.2%.

The percentage of adults in Alameda County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 82.4%. About 34.9% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Alameda County with a disability is 248,558.

There were 762,568 civilians working in Alameda County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 81,250 (or 10.7% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,050,993 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 104,871 residents less than five years old, (7.0% of residents), 344,679 less than eighteen years old (23.1% of residents), and 162,522 of the population of Alameda County was over the age of sixty-five (10.9% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.5%. The population classified as white was 836,462 (56.1%), black: 196,797 (13.2%), Asian: 379,205 (25.4%), two or more races: 55,978 (3.8%), Hispanic or Latino: 327,377 (21.9%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Alameda County, CA was $29,632,054 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $41,553,292 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $16,512,174 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $56,811,286 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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