Bronx County, NY Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Bronx County, New York Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Bronx County is 42.03 square miles. There are on average 31,729 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,332,650 people living in the county within 463,212 households (averaging 2.78 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,397,287 with an estimated 4.9% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Bronx County, NY was $13,959. By 2007 the income was $26,001. The average income in each household was $35,108 in 2008. The percentage of Bronx County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 27.3%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $36,014 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $41,768 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 513,395 housing units within the county, a change of 22,735 from 2000 (or about 4.6%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 19.6%. The median value of each house was about $190,400 in the county in 2000. 1,647 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $188,249 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Bronx County births in the year 2006 was 22,669 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 9,535. Infant deaths that year numbered 159.

In 2007, Bronx County, NY jobs totaled 335,900 across all industries. This was a change of 47,830 jobs from 2000. The number of Bronx County jobs in government in 2007 was 25,493. Workers traveled an average of 43.0 minutes to work each day.

There were 93,580 businesses in Bronx County in 2002. These include 41.8% of businesses listed as owned by women, 25.2% of businesses owned by blacks, 41.0% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 7.2% of businesses owned by Asians, and 2.0% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Bronx County devoted to farming was 0 acres in 2007.

In 2000 52.7% 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 29.0%.

The percentage of adults in Bronx County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 62.3%. About 14.6% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Bronx County with a disability is 340,121.

There were 536,697 civilians working in Bronx County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 65,443 (or 12.2% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $490,582 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 111,773 residents less than five years old, (8.0% of residents), 389,306 less than eighteen years old (27.9% of residents), and 147,488 of the population of Bronx County was over the age of sixty-five (10.6% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 53.0%. The population classified as white was 691,992 (49.5%), black: 601,273 (43.0%), Asian: 52,686 (3.8%), two or more races: 31,318 (2.2%), Hispanic or Latino: 726,265 (52.0%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Bronx County, NY was $1,356,541 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $0 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $4,318,169 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $14,029,813 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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