Oakland County, MI Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Oakland County, Michigan Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Oakland County is 872.51 square miles. There are on average 1,367 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,194,156 people living in the county within 471,115 households (averaging 2.51 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,205,508 with an estimated 1.0% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Oakland County, MI was $32,534. By 2007 the income was $55,207. The average income in each household was $67,669 in 2008. The percentage of Oakland County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 8.6%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $66,375 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $60,993 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 525,528 housing units within the county, a change of 33,521 from 2000 (or about 6.8%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 74.7%. The median value of each house was about $181,200 in the county in 2000. 456 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $126,552 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Oakland County births in the year 2006 was 14,398 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 9,074. Infant deaths that year numbered 91.

In 2007, Oakland County, MI jobs totaled 914,918 across all industries. This was a change of -45,813 jobs from 2000. The number of Oakland County jobs in government in 2007 was 59,502. Workers traveled an average of 26.5 minutes to work each day.

There were 121,251 businesses in Oakland County in 2002. These include 28.0% of businesses listed as owned by women, 5.4% of businesses owned by blacks, 1.4% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 3.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.6% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Oakland County devoted to farming was 32,504 acres in 2007.

In 2000 12.7% 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 10.0%.

The percentage of adults in Oakland County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 89.3%. About 38.2% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Oakland County with a disability is 164,294.

There were 602,925 civilians working in Oakland County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 78,056 (or 12.9% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,038,414 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 70,322 residents less than five years old, (5.8% of residents), 281,639 less than eighteen years old (23.4% of residents), and 155,733 of the population of Oakland County was over the age of sixty-five (12.9% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.9%. The population classified as white was 963,359 (79.9%), black: 153,918 (12.8%), Asian: 67,954 (5.6%), two or more races: 16,424 (1.4%), Hispanic or Latino: 38,705 (3.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Oakland County, MI was $27,022,148 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $62,105,475 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $19,140,544 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $55,803,577 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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