Palm Beach County, FL Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Palm Beach County, Florida Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Palm Beach County is 1,974 square miles. There are on average 573.0 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,131,184 people living in the county within 474,175 households (averaging 2.34 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,279,950 with an estimated 13.2% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Palm Beach County, FL was $28,801. By 2007 the income was $59,147. The average income in each household was $52,807 in 2008. The percentage of Palm Beach County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 11.7%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $74,548 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $45,470 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 642,041 housing units within the county, a change of 85,609 from 2000 (or about 15.4%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 74.7%. The median value of each house was about $135,200 in the county in 2000. 1,431 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $324,754 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Palm Beach County births in the year 2006 was 15,686 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 13,291. Infant deaths that year numbered 87.

In 2007, Palm Beach County, FL jobs totaled 808,212 across all industries. This was a change of 158,579 jobs from 2000. The number of Palm Beach County jobs in government in 2007 was 69,296. Workers traveled an average of 25.7 minutes to work each day.

There were 130,332 businesses in Palm Beach County in 2002. These include 29.0% of businesses listed as owned by women, 6.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 10.2% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.3% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.5% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Palm Beach County devoted to farming was 525,658 acres in 2007.

In 2000 21.7% 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 17.4%.

The percentage of adults in Palm Beach County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 83.6%. About 27.7% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Palm Beach County with a disability is 224,178.

There were 619,344 civilians working in Palm Beach County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 66,689 (or 10.8% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,266,130 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 77,230 residents less than five years old, (6.0% of residents), 268,835 less than eighteen years old (21.0% of residents), and 275,578 of the population of Palm Beach County was over the age of sixty-five (21.5% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.1%. The population classified as white was 1,007,632 (78.7%), black: 216,616 (16.9%), Asian: 30,671 (2.4%), two or more races: 15,777 (1.2%), Hispanic or Latino: 236,792 (18.5%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Palm Beach County, FL was $3,204,558 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $14,804,170 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $16,480,821 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $36,749,037 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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