New York County, NY Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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New York County, New York Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in New York County is 22.96 square miles. There are on average 66,834 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,537,195 people living in the county within 738,644 households (averaging 2.00 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,629,054 with an estimated 6.0% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for New York County, NY was $42,922. By 2007 the income was $120,790. The average income in each household was $68,402 in 2008. The percentage of New York County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 16.9%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $196,314 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $121,096 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 858,156 housing units within the county, a change of 60,001 from 2000 (or about 7.5%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 20.1%. The median value of each house was about $1,000,001 in the county in 2000. 1,363 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $144,704 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of New York County births in the year 2006 was 20,479 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 10,450. Infant deaths that year numbered 86.

In 2007, New York County, NY jobs totaled 2,813,241 across all industries. This was a change of 35,855 jobs from 2000. The number of New York County jobs in government in 2007 was 457,529. Workers traveled an average of 30.5 minutes to work each day.

There were 282,357 businesses in New York County in 2002. These include 30.6% of businesses listed as owned by women, 5.7% of businesses owned by blacks, 11.3% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 10.2% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.7% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in New York County devoted to farming was 0 acres in 2007.

In 2000 41.9% 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 29.4%.

The percentage of adults in New York County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 78.7%. About 49.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in New York County with a disability is 303,208.

There were 942,495 civilians working in New York County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 80,231 (or 8.5% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $10,714,578 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 93,953 residents less than five years old, (5.8% of residents), 259,817 less than eighteen years old (15.9% of residents), and 207,637 of the population of New York County was over the age of sixty-five (12.7% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 52.4%. The population classified as white was 1,106,065 (67.9%), black: 297,440 (18.3%), Asian: 176,984 (10.9%), two or more races: 36,323 (2.2%), Hispanic or Latino: 387,678 (23.8%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in New York County, NY was $10,950,335 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $140669286 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $25,904,575 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $340672511 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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