Cuyahoga County, OH Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Cuyahoga County, Ohio Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Cuyahoga County is 458.49 square miles. There are on average 3,043 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,393,978 people living in the county within 571,457 households (averaging 2.39 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had decreased to 1,275,709 with an estimated -8.5% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Cuyahoga County, OH was $22,272. By 2007 the income was $40,838. The average income in each household was $44,324 in 2008. The percentage of Cuyahoga County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 15.9%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $52,893 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $53,377 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 620,285 housing units within the county, a change of 3,406 from 2000 (or about 0.6%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 63.2%. The median value of each house was about $113,800 in the county in 2000. 503 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $97,172 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Cuyahoga County births in the year 2006 was 16,748 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 14,036. Infant deaths that year numbered 159.

In 2007, Cuyahoga County, OH jobs totaled 924,294 across all industries. This was a change of -49,934 jobs from 2000. The number of Cuyahoga County jobs in government in 2007 was 106,859. Workers traveled an average of 24.4 minutes to work each day.

There were 101,188 businesses in Cuyahoga County in 2002. These include 27.9% of businesses listed as owned by women, 9.7% of businesses owned by blacks, 1.1% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.7% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.2% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Cuyahoga County devoted to farming was 2,910 acres in 2007.

In 2000 11.1% 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 6.4%.

The percentage of adults in Cuyahoga County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 81.6%. About 25.1% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Cuyahoga County with a disability is 254,830.

There were 639,928 civilians working in Cuyahoga County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 58,771 (or 9.2% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,132,004 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 78,443 residents less than five years old, (6.1% of residents), 292,883 less than eighteen years old (23.0% of residents), and 194,879 of the population of Cuyahoga County was over the age of sixty-five (15.3% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 52.6%. The population classified as white was 850,647 (66.7%), black: 373,815 (29.3%), Asian: 30,600 (2.4%), two or more races: 16,391 (1.3%), Hispanic or Latino: 57,888 (4.5%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Cuyahoga County, OH was $19,827,491 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $23,055,380 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $15,483,267 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $49,336,389 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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