Nassau County, NY Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Nassau County, New York Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Nassau County is 286.69 square miles. There are on average 4,650 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,334,544 people living in the county within 447,387 households (averaging 2.93 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,357,429 with an estimated 1.7% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Nassau County, NY was $32,151. By 2007 the income was $62,981. The average income in each household was $94,856 in 2008. The percentage of Nassau County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 4.9%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $85,217 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $57,286 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 459,070 housing units within the county, a change of 911 from 2000 (or about 0.2%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 80.3%. The median value of each house was about $242,300 in the county in 2000. 378 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $178,308 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Nassau County births in the year 2006 was 15,237 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 10,440. Infant deaths that year numbered 66.

In 2007, Nassau County, NY jobs totaled 813,102 across all industries. This was a change of 49,121 jobs from 2000. The number of Nassau County jobs in government in 2007 was 86,446. Workers traveled an average of 34.3 minutes to work each day.

There were 152,395 businesses in Nassau County in 2002. These include 24.9% of businesses listed as owned by women, 4.4% of businesses owned by blacks, 6.0% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 6.7% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.3% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Nassau County devoted to farming was 1,288 acres in 2007.

In 2000 23.2% 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 17.9%.

The percentage of adults in Nassau County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 86.7%. About 35.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Nassau County with a disability is 196,086.

There were 696,652 civilians working in Nassau County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 48,188 (or 6.9% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,965,422 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 74,649 residents less than five years old, (5.5% of residents), 313,480 less than eighteen years old (23.1% of residents), and 206,727 of the population of Nassau County was over the age of sixty-five (15.2% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.2%. The population classified as white was 1,083,721 (79.8%), black: 154,015 (11.3%), Asian: 97,974 (7.2%), two or more races: 17,250 (1.3%), Hispanic or Latino: 175,245 (12.9%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Nassau County, NY was $8,449,363 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $0 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $19,647,827 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $46,579,308 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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