Harris County, TX Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Harris County, Texas Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Harris County is 1,728 square miles. There are on average 1,966 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 3,400,578 people living in the county within 1,205,516 households (averaging 2.79 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 4,070,989 with an estimated 19.7% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Harris County, TX was $21,435. By 2007 the income was $49,634. The average income in each household was $52,391 in 2008. The percentage of Harris County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 15.3%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $194,178 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $74,475 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 1,604,122 housing units within the county, a change of 305,986 from 2000 (or about 23.6%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 55.3%. The median value of each house was about $87,000 in the county in 2000. 14,142 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,788,794 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Harris County births in the year 2006 was 70,213 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 20,640. Infant deaths that year numbered 413.

In 2007, Harris County, TX jobs totaled 2,646,664 across all industries. This was a change of 349,592 jobs from 2000. The number of Harris County jobs in government in 2007 was 257,453. Workers traveled an average of 28.1 minutes to work each day.

There were 302,719 businesses in Harris County in 2002. These include 28.4% of businesses listed as owned by women, 9.2% of businesses owned by blacks, 20.5% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 8.2% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.9% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Harris County devoted to farming was 259,039 acres in 2007.

In 2000 36.2% 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 22.2%.

The percentage of adults in Harris County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 74.6%. About 26.9% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Harris County with a disability is 573,025.

There were 1,982,288 civilians working in Harris County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 150,347 (or 7.6% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $5,593,840 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 360,781 residents less than five years old, (8.9% of residents), 1,174,860 less than eighteen years old (28.9% of residents), and 328,354 of the population of Harris County was over the age of sixty-five (8.1% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 49.8%. The population classified as white was 2,981,004 (73.2%), black: 765,596 (18.8%), Asian: 234,602 (5.8%), two or more races: 54,724 (1.3%), Hispanic or Latino: 1,619,426 (39.8%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Harris County, TX was $67,059,703 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $135427351 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $39,358,036 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $197109914 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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