Contra Costa County, CA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Contra Costa County, California Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Contra Costa County is 719.95 square miles. There are on average 1,317 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 948,816 people living in the county within 344,129 households (averaging 2.72 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,041,274 with an estimated 9.7% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Contra Costa County, CA was $30,615. By 2007 the income was $55,580. The average income in each household was $78,469 in 2008. The percentage of Contra Costa County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 9.4%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $56,397 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $58,680 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 396,632 housing units within the county, a change of 42,055 from 2000 (or about 11.9%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 69.3%. The median value of each house was about $267,800 in the county in 2000. 1,235 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $285,043 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Contra Costa County births in the year 2006 was 13,570 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 6,892. Infant deaths that year numbered 55.

In 2007, Contra Costa County, CA jobs totaled 514,931 across all industries. This was a change of 37,285 jobs from 2000. The number of Contra Costa County jobs in government in 2007 was 50,937. Workers traveled an average of 34.4 minutes to work each day.

There were 82,564 businesses in Contra Costa County in 2002. These include 33.9% of businesses listed as owned by women, 8.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 12.0% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Contra Costa County devoted to farming was 146,993 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 19.0%.

The percentage of adults in Contra Costa County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 86.9%. About 35.0% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Contra Costa County with a disability is 147,572.

There were 525,996 civilians working in Contra Costa County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 54,309 (or 10.3% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,184,301 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 69,038 residents less than five years old, (6.6% of residents), 259,082 less than eighteen years old (24.9% of residents), and 126,828 of the population of Contra Costa County was over the age of sixty-five (12.2% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.7%. The population classified as white was 741,090 (71.2%), black: 101,353 (9.7%), Asian: 147,149 (14.1%), two or more races: 38,149 (3.7%), Hispanic or Latino: 241,253 (23.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Contra Costa County, CA was $11,515,876 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $18,132,332 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $10,108,546 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $30,216,370 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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