Miami-Dade County, FL Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Miami-Dade County, Florida Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Miami-Dade County is 1,946 square miles. There are on average 1,157 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 2,253,362 people living in the county within 776,774 households (averaging 2.84 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 2,500,625 with an estimated 11.0% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Miami-Dade County, FL was $18,497. By 2007 the income was $36,081. The average income in each household was $43,921 in 2008. The percentage of Miami-Dade County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 16.5%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $85,979 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $46,756 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 980,225 housing units within the county, a change of 127,808 from 2000 (or about 15.0%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 57.8%. The median value of each house was about $124,000 in the county in 2000. 1,395 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $252,407 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Miami-Dade County births in the year 2006 was 33,746 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 18,261. Infant deaths that year numbered 218.

In 2007, Miami-Dade County, FL jobs totaled 1,454,499 across all industries. This was a change of 178,496 jobs from 2000. The number of Miami-Dade County jobs in government in 2007 was 160,343. Workers traveled an average of 30.1 minutes to work each day.

There were 297,458 businesses in Miami-Dade County in 2002. These include 29.6% of businesses listed as owned by women, 9.5% of businesses owned by blacks, 54.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.3% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.6% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Miami-Dade County devoted to farming was 67,050 acres in 2007.

In 2000 67.9% 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 50.9%.

The percentage of adults in Miami-Dade County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 67.9%. About 21.7% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Miami-Dade County with a disability is 473,992.

There were 1,244,493 civilians working in Miami-Dade County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 133,020 (or 10.7% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $4,162,169 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 169,012 residents less than five years old, (6.8% of residents), 574,690 less than eighteen years old (23.0% of residents), and 360,396 of the population of Miami-Dade County was over the age of sixty-five (14.4% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.2%. The population classified as white was 1,930,015 (77.2%), black: 488,854 (19.5%), Asian: 41,201 (1.6%), two or more races: 27,322 (1.1%), Hispanic or Latino: 1,562,847 (62.5%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Miami-Dade County, FL was $8,442,440 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $39,021,392 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $24,568,286 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $68,006,431 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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