Franklin County, OH Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Franklin County, Ohio Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Franklin County is 539.87 square miles. There are on average 1,979 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,068,978 people living in the county within 438,778 households (averaging 2.39 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,150,122 with an estimated 7.6% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Franklin County, OH was $23,059. By 2007 the income was $38,556. The average income in each household was $51,246 in 2008. The percentage of Franklin County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 15.1%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $43,065 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $50,049 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 526,585 housing units within the county, a change of 55,577 from 2000 (or about 11.8%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 56.9%. The median value of each house was about $116,200 in the county in 2000. 2,889 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $382,808 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Franklin County births in the year 2006 was 18,235 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 8,334. Infant deaths that year numbered 165.

In 2007, Franklin County, OH jobs totaled 857,542 across all industries. This was a change of -1,139 jobs from 2000. The number of Franklin County jobs in government in 2007 was 128,538. Workers traveled an average of 21.9 minutes to work each day.

There were 85,427 businesses in Franklin County in 2002. These include 29.7% of businesses listed as owned by women, 9.2% of businesses owned by blacks, 1.0% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.7% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.0% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Franklin County devoted to farming was 59,601 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 6.0%.

The percentage of adults in Franklin County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 85.7%. About 31.8% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Franklin County with a disability is 166,861.

There were 629,785 civilians working in Franklin County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 52,123 (or 8.3% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,121,534 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 86,569 residents less than five years old, (7.5% of residents), 275,763 less than eighteen years old (24.0% of residents), and 115,143 of the population of Franklin County was over the age of sixty-five (10.0% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.1%. The population classified as white was 852,577 (74.1%), black: 227,466 (19.8%), Asian: 44,401 (3.9%), two or more races: 20,810 (1.8%), Hispanic or Latino: 51,606 (4.5%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Franklin County, OH was $13,435,788 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $25,947,667 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $14,864,623 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $42,919,387 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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