Los Angeles County, CA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Los Angeles County, California Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Los Angeles County is 4,060 square miles. There are on average 2,344 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 9,519,338 people living in the county within 3,133,774 households (averaging 2.98 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 9,848,011 with an estimated 3.5% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Los Angeles County, CA was $20,683. By 2007 the income was $39,794. The average income in each household was $55,452 in 2008. The percentage of Los Angeles County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 15.3%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $390,296 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $54,612 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 3,390,793 housing units within the county, a change of 119,886 from 2000 (or about 3.7%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 47.9%. The median value of each house was about $209,300 in the county in 2000. 5,138 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,204,472 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Los Angeles County births in the year 2006 was 151,967 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 59,641. Infant deaths that year numbered 737.

In 2007, Los Angeles County, CA jobs totaled 5,846,145 across all industries. This was a change of 346,917 jobs from 2000. The number of Los Angeles County jobs in government in 2007 was 620,353. Workers traveled an average of 29.4 minutes to work each day.

There were 901,948 businesses in Los Angeles County in 2002. These include 29.5% of businesses listed as owned by women, 5.8% of businesses owned by blacks, 20.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 15.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Los Angeles County devoted to farming was 108,463 acres in 2007.

In 2000 54.1% 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 36.2%.

The percentage of adults in Los Angeles County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 69.9%. About 24.9% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Los Angeles County with a disability is 1,775,009.

There were 4,896,067 civilians working in Los Angeles County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 567,478 (or 11.6% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $14,211,642 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 729,777 residents less than five years old, (7.4% of residents), 2,500,804 less than eighteen years old (25.4% of residents), and 1,042,989 of the population of Los Angeles County was over the age of sixty-five (10.6% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.4%. The population classified as white was 7,291,271 (74.0%), black: 919,874 (9.3%), Asian: 1,319,195 (13.4%), two or more races: 186,926 (1.9%), Hispanic or Latino: 4,729,393 (48.0%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Los Angeles County, CA was $108052135 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $198703926 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $92,100,128 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $319269445 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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