Erie County, NY Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Erie County, New York Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Erie County is 1,044 square miles. There are on average 910.2 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 950,265 people living in the county within 380,873 households (averaging 2.41 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had decreased to 909,247 with an estimated -4.3% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Erie County, NY was $20,357. By 2007 the income was $36,116. The average income in each household was $48,427 in 2008. The percentage of Erie County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 13.5%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $32,944 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $46,442 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 423,872 housing units within the county, a change of 8,004 from 2000 (or about 1.9%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 65.3%. The median value of each house was about $90,800 in the county in 2000. 973 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $177,973 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Erie County births in the year 2006 was 9,980 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 9,430. Infant deaths that year numbered 91.

In 2007, Erie County, NY jobs totaled 555,634 across all industries. This was a change of 2,640 jobs from 2000. The number of Erie County jobs in government in 2007 was 77,028. Workers traveled an average of 21.3 minutes to work each day.

There were 57,556 businesses in Erie County in 2002. These include 27.1% of businesses listed as owned by women, 4.0% of businesses owned by blacks, 1.4% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.2% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Erie County devoted to farming was 149,356 acres in 2007.

In 2000 9.0% 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 4.5%.

The percentage of adults in Erie County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 82.9%. About 24.5% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Erie County with a disability is 168,549.

There were 472,738 civilians working in Erie County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 38,446 (or 8.1% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,213,115 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 48,917 residents less than five years old, (5.4% of residents), 195,839 less than eighteen years old (21.5% of residents), and 144,021 of the population of Erie County was over the age of sixty-five (15.8% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.8%. The population classified as white was 751,257 (82.6%), black: 122,890 (13.5%), Asian: 17,075 (1.9%), two or more races: 11,211 (1.2%), Hispanic or Latino: 36,186 (4.0%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Erie County, NY was $13,494,429 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $0 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $9,838,147 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $25,804,926 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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