Montgomery County, MD Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Montgomery County, Maryland Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Montgomery County is 495.52 square miles. There are on average 1,760 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 873,341 people living in the county within 324,565 households (averaging 2.66 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 971,600 with an estimated 11.3% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Montgomery County, MD was $35,684. By 2007 the income was $67,525. The average income in each household was $93,895 in 2008. The percentage of Montgomery County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 5.8%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $63,574 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $65,694 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 365,792 housing units within the county, a change of 31,157 from 2000 (or about 9.3%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 68.7%. The median value of each house was about $221,800 in the county in 2000. 862 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $244,499 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Montgomery County births in the year 2006 was 13,903 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 5,213. Infant deaths that year numbered 90.

In 2007, Montgomery County, MD jobs totaled 654,728 across all industries. This was a change of 56,431 jobs from 2000. The number of Montgomery County jobs in government in 2007 was 88,488. Workers traveled an average of 32.8 minutes to work each day.

There were 98,494 businesses in Montgomery County in 2002. These include 32.5% of businesses listed as owned by women, 11.6% of businesses owned by blacks, 7.5% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 11.0% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.2% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Montgomery County devoted to farming was 67,613 acres in 2007.

In 2000 31.6% 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 26.7%.

The percentage of adults in Montgomery County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 90.3%. About 54.6% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Montgomery County with a disability is 107,808.

There were 513,689 civilians working in Montgomery County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 27,360 (or 5.3% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,338,375 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 69,752 residents less than five years old, (7.2% of residents), 237,621 less than eighteen years old (24.5% of residents), and 119,511 of the population of Montgomery County was over the age of sixty-five (12.3% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.5%. The population classified as white was 641,020 (66.0%), black: 169,950 (17.5%), Asian: 134,665 (13.9%), two or more races: 19,923 (2.1%), Hispanic or Latino: 156,779 (16.1%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Montgomery County, MD was $3,418,496 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $7,116,773 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $11,390,449 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $43,011,433 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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