Clark County, NV Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Clark County, Nevada Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Clark County is 7,910 square miles. There are on average 173.9 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,375,765 people living in the county within 512,253 households (averaging 2.65 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,902,834 with an estimated 38.3% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Clark County, NV was $21,785. By 2007 the income was $39,188. The average income in each household was $56,691 in 2008. The percentage of Clark County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 11.1%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $71,622 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $47,093 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 819,409 housing units within the county, a change of 259,623 from 2000 (or about 46.4%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 59.1%. The median value of each house was about $139,500 in the county in 2000. 5,688 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $554,332 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Clark County births in the year 2006 was 29,797 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 12,814. Infant deaths that year numbered 194.

In 2007, Clark County, NV jobs totaled 1,181,323 across all industries. This was a change of 317,821 jobs from 2000. The number of Clark County jobs in government in 2007 was 109,324. Workers traveled an average of 24.3 minutes to work each day.

There were 110,300 businesses in Clark County in 2002. These include 28.3% of businesses listed as owned by women, 3.5% of businesses owned by blacks, 6.8% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 6.5% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.0% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Clark County devoted to farming was 88,381 acres in 2007.

In 2000 26.0% 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 18.0%.

The percentage of adults in Clark County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 79.5%. About 17.3% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Clark County with a disability is 264,470.

There were 982,483 civilians working in Clark County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 117,413 (or 12.0% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $16,440,741 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 152,222 residents less than five years old, (8.0% of residents), 501,150 less than eighteen years old (26.3% of residents), and 203,909 of the population of Clark County was over the age of sixty-five (10.7% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 49.1%. The population classified as white was 1,467,023 (77.1%), black: 201,467 (10.6%), Asian: 145,672 (7.7%), two or more races: 56,992 (3.0%), Hispanic or Latino: 557,267 (29.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Clark County, NV was $3,859,954 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $0 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $19,302,266 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $55,632,121 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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