DuPage County, IL Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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DuPage County, Illinois Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in DuPage County is 333.61 square miles. There are on average 2,707 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 904,161 people living in the county within 325,601 households (averaging 2.73 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 932,541 with an estimated 3.1% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for DuPage County, IL was $31,315. By 2007 the income was $55,371. The average income in each household was $77,040 in 2008. The percentage of DuPage County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 5.8%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $51,286 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $60,761 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 359,880 housing units within the county, a change of 24,259 from 2000 (or about 7.2%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 76.4%. The median value of each house was about $195,000 in the county in 2000. 460 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $175,499 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of DuPage County births in the year 2006 was 11,869 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 5,711. Infant deaths that year numbered 87.

In 2007, DuPage County, IL jobs totaled 740,149 across all industries. This was a change of 37,574 jobs from 2000. The number of DuPage County jobs in government in 2007 was 52,905. Workers traveled an average of 29.0 minutes to work each day.

There were 87,445 businesses in DuPage County in 2002. These include 27.7% of businesses listed as owned by women, 1.9% of businesses owned by blacks, 3.2% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 7.5% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.2% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in DuPage County devoted to farming was 7,948 acres in 2007.

In 2000 20.8% 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 15.3%.

The percentage of adults in DuPage County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 90.0%. About 41.7% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in DuPage County with a disability is 101,008.

There were 523,572 civilians working in DuPage County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 44,069 (or 8.4% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,721,730 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 59,626 residents less than five years old, (6.4% of residents), 230,375 less than eighteen years old (24.7% of residents), and 106,059 of the population of DuPage County was over the age of sixty-five (11.4% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.4%. The population classified as white was 778,486 (83.5%), black: 44,421 (4.8%), Asian: 93,968 (10.1%), two or more races: 12,462 (1.3%), Hispanic or Latino: 117,507 (12.6%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in DuPage County, IL was $14,151,643 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $92,529,975 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $15,049,905 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $44,972,374 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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