Milwaukee County, WI Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Milwaukee County is 241.56 square miles. There are on average 3,885 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 940,164 people living in the county within 377,729 households (averaging 2.43 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 959,521 with an estimated 2.1% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Milwaukee County, WI was $19,939. By 2007 the income was $35,852. The average income in each household was $45,902 in 2008. The percentage of Milwaukee County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 17.0%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $34,107 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $51,634 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 409,434 housing units within the county, a change of 9,340 from 2000 (or about 2.3%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 52.6%. The median value of each house was about $103,200 in the county in 2000. 584 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $65,214 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Milwaukee County births in the year 2006 was 15,203 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 8,214. Infant deaths that year numbered 155.

In 2007, Milwaukee County, WI jobs totaled 610,671 across all industries. This was a change of -16,781 jobs from 2000. The number of Milwaukee County jobs in government in 2007 was 66,287. Workers traveled an average of 21.9 minutes to work each day.

There were 50,626 businesses in Milwaukee County in 2002. These include 30.3% of businesses listed as owned by women, 9.5% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.6% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 3.1% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.8% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Milwaukee County devoted to farming was 5,458 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 6.8%.

The percentage of adults in Milwaukee County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 80.2%. About 23.6% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Milwaukee County with a disability is 169,939.

There were 464,302 civilians working in Milwaukee County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 43,364 (or 9.3% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,254,504 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 74,224 residents less than five years old, (7.7% of residents), 241,292 less than eighteen years old (25.1% of residents), and 109,505 of the population of Milwaukee County was over the age of sixty-five (11.4% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.8%. The population classified as white was 655,356 (68.3%), black: 246,589 (25.7%), Asian: 30,995 (3.2%), two or more races: 17,054 (1.8%), Hispanic or Latino: 117,282 (12.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Milwaukee County, WI was $15,377,699 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $15,157,730 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $8,851,410 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $31,531,625 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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