Cook County, IL Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Cook County, Illinois Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Cook County is 945.68 square miles. There are on average 5,683 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 5,376,741 people living in the county within 1,974,181 households (averaging 2.68 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had decreased to 5,287,037 with an estimated -1.7% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Cook County, IL was $23,227. By 2007 the income was $45,230. The average income in each household was $54,559 in 2008. The percentage of Cook County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 14.8%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $238,426 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $61,851 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 2,189,583 housing units within the county, a change of 93,424 from 2000 (or about 4.5%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 57.9%. The median value of each house was about $157,700 in the county in 2000. 2,059 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $490,053 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Cook County births in the year 2006 was 79,365 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 41,451. Infant deaths that year numbered 583.

In 2007, Cook County, IL jobs totaled 3,349,739 across all industries. This was a change of -2,251 jobs from 2000. The number of Cook County jobs in government in 2007 was 347,055. Workers traveled an average of 32.6 minutes to work each day.

There were 421,341 businesses in Cook County in 2002. These include 31.0% of businesses listed as owned by women, 13.0% of businesses owned by blacks, 6.4% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 6.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Cook County devoted to farming was 8,198 acres in 2007.

In 2000 30.8% 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 19.8%.

The percentage of adults in Cook County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 77.7%. About 28.0% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Cook County with a disability is 973,558.

There were 2,602,132 civilians working in Cook County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 269,160 (or 10.3% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $9,587,830 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 381,075 residents less than five years old, (7.2% of residents), 1,283,145 less than eighteen years old (24.3% of residents), and 621,214 of the population of Cook County was over the age of sixty-five (11.7% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.3%. The population classified as white was 3,527,789 (66.7%), black: 1,350,766 (25.5%), Asian: 312,868 (5.9%), two or more races: 66,619 (1.3%), Hispanic or Latino: 1,224,589 (23.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Cook County, IL was $65,387,978 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $117324662 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $50,441,449 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $207185995 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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