King County, WA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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King County, Washington Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in King County is 2,126 square miles. There are on average 817.0 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,737,034 people living in the county within 710,916 households (averaging 2.39 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,916,441 with an estimated 10.3% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for King County, WA was $29,521. By 2007 the income was $57,710. The average income in each household was $70,091 in 2008. The percentage of King County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 9.2%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $106,805 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $64,540 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 837,998 housing units within the county, a change of 95,756 from 2000 (or about 12.9%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 59.8%. The median value of each house was about $236,900 in the county in 2000. 3,186 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $676,069 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of King County births in the year 2006 was 24,254 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 11,610. Infant deaths that year numbered 101.

In 2007, King County, WA jobs totaled 1,529,502 across all industries. This was a change of 81,411 jobs from 2000. The number of King County jobs in government in 2007 was 171,397. Workers traveled an average of 26.5 minutes to work each day.

There were 165,089 businesses in King County in 2002. These include 31.0% of businesses listed as owned by women, 2.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.0% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 9.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.9% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in King County devoted to farming was 49,285 acres in 2007.

In 2000 18.4% 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 15.4%.

The percentage of adults in King County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 90.3%. About 40.0% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in King County with a disability is 259,843.

There were 1,110,856 civilians working in King County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 90,383 (or 8.1% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $3,776,814 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 122,232 residents less than five years old, (6.4% of residents), 408,363 less than eighteen years old (21.3% of residents), and 205,002 of the population of King County was over the age of sixty-five (10.7% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.0%. The population classified as white was 1,426,855 (74.5%), black: 124,612 (6.5%), Asian: 267,420 (14.0%), two or more races: 66,029 (3.4%), Hispanic or Latino: 155,292 (8.1%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in King County, WA was $29,264,797 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $54,547,037 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $24,261,001 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $98,714,385 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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