Fulton County, GA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Fulton County, Georgia Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Fulton County is 528.66 square miles. There are on average 1,542 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 816,006 people living in the county within 321,242 households (averaging 2.44 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,033,756 with an estimated 26.7% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Fulton County, GA was $30,003. By 2007 the income was $54,215. The average income in each household was $62,682 in 2008. The percentage of Fulton County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 14.9%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $53,807 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $71,170 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 445,029 housing units within the county, a change of 96,392 from 2000 (or about 27.6%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 52.0%. The median value of each house was about $180,700 in the county in 2000. 1,529 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $217,654 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Fulton County births in the year 2006 was 14,162 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 6,024. Infant deaths that year numbered 103.

In 2007, Fulton County, GA jobs totaled 970,523 across all industries. This was a change of 59,100 jobs from 2000. The number of Fulton County jobs in government in 2007 was 110,710. Workers traveled an average of 29.1 minutes to work each day.

There were 85,681 businesses in Fulton County in 2002. These include 31.7% of businesses listed as owned by women, 17.6% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.5% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 4.0% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.6% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Fulton County devoted to farming was 15,557 acres in 2007.

In 2000 13.3% 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 9.6%.

The percentage of adults in Fulton County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 84.0%. About 41.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Fulton County with a disability is 137,102.

There were 484,733 civilians working in Fulton County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 47,308 (or 9.8% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $3,328,579 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 72,065 residents less than five years old, (7.0% of residents), 249,981 less than eighteen years old (24.2% of residents), and 81,901 of the population of Fulton County was over the age of sixty-five (7.9% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.7%. The population classified as white was 523,155 (50.6%), black: 445,660 (43.1%), Asian: 45,174 (4.4%), two or more races: 14,211 (1.4%), Hispanic or Latino: 89,829 (8.7%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Fulton County, GA was $11,973,516 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $84,705,048 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $11,149,163 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $69,071,759 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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