Allegheny County, PA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Allegheny County is 730.17 square miles. There are on average 1,755 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,281,666 people living in the county within 537,150 households (averaging 2.31 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had decreased to 1,218,494 with an estimated -4.9% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Allegheny County, PA was $22,491. By 2007 the income was $46,699. The average income in each household was $48,778 in 2008. The percentage of Allegheny County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 12.4%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $56,900 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $58,209 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 592,592 housing units within the county, a change of 8,947 from 2000 (or about 1.5%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 67.0%. The median value of each house was about $84,200 in the county in 2000. 1,256 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $265,882 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Allegheny County births in the year 2006 was 12,997 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 14,116. Infant deaths that year numbered 99.

In 2007, Allegheny County, PA jobs totaled 870,290 across all industries. This was a change of -4,994 jobs from 2000. The number of Allegheny County jobs in government in 2007 was 75,041. Workers traveled an average of 25.3 minutes to work each day.

There were 89,748 businesses in Allegheny County in 2002. These include 26.2% of businesses listed as owned by women, 3.9% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.6% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.0% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Allegheny County devoted to farming was 38,023 acres in 2007.

In 2000 6.6% 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 3.8%.

The percentage of adults in Allegheny County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 86.3%. About 28.3% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Allegheny County with a disability is 214,093.

There were 640,843 civilians working in Allegheny County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 44,113 (or 6.9% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,182,494 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 64,532 residents less than five years old, (5.3% of residents), 242,202 less than eighteen years old (19.9% of residents), and 204,401 of the population of Allegheny County was over the age of sixty-five (16.8% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 52.2%. The population classified as white was 1,012,261 (83.1%), black: 156,920 (12.9%), Asian: 29,974 (2.5%), two or more races: 15,526 (1.3%), Hispanic or Latino: 18,528 (1.5%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Allegheny County, PA was $10,736,527 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $29,248,184 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $14,522,461 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $50,658,907 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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