Mecklenburg County, NC Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Mecklenburg County is 526.28 square miles. There are on average 1,322 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 695,454 people living in the county within 273,416 households (averaging 2.49 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 913,639 with an estimated 31.4% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Mecklenburg County, NC was $27,352. By 2007 the income was $45,483. The average income in each household was $57,293 in 2008. The percentage of Mecklenburg County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 10.9%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $39,289 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $60,046 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 394,480 housing units within the county, a change of 101,723 from 2000 (or about 34.7%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 62.3%. The median value of each house was about $141,800 in the county in 2000. 3,044 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $380,083 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Mecklenburg County births in the year 2006 was 14,372 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 4,842. Infant deaths that year numbered 94.

In 2007, Mecklenburg County, NC jobs totaled 712,470 across all industries. This was a change of 98,860 jobs from 2000. The number of Mecklenburg County jobs in government in 2007 was 65,786. Workers traveled an average of 26.0 minutes to work each day.

There were 67,770 businesses in Mecklenburg County in 2002. These include 27.5% of businesses listed as owned by women, 11.4% of businesses owned by blacks, 3.1% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 4.2% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.8% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Mecklenburg County devoted to farming was 19,135 acres in 2007.

In 2000 13.1% 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 9.8%.

The percentage of adults in Mecklenburg County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 86.2%. About 37.1% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Mecklenburg County with a disability is 104,224.

There were 454,082 civilians working in Mecklenburg County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 49,202 (or 10.8% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,597,023 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 74,481 residents less than five years old, (8.2% of residents), 237,842 less than eighteen years old (26.0% of residents), and 78,551 of the population of Mecklenburg County was over the age of sixty-five (8.6% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.0%. The population classified as white was 585,265 (64.1%), black: 271,848 (29.8%), Asian: 37,052 (4.1%), two or more races: 13,201 (1.4%), Hispanic or Latino: 100,625 (11.0%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Mecklenburg County, NC was $8,389,564 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $32,743,164 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $10,567,506 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $42,780,977 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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