Philadelphia County, PA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Philadelphia County is 135.09 square miles. There are on average 11,241 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,517,550 people living in the county within 590,071 households (averaging 2.48 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,547,297 with an estimated 2.0% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Philadelphia County, PA was $16,509. By 2007 the income was $34,764. The average income in each household was $37,090 in 2008. The percentage of Philadelphia County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 23.8%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $50,360 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $63,639 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 661,575 housing units within the county, a change of -382 from 2000 (or about -0.1%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 59.3%. The median value of each house was about $59,700 in the county in 2000. 947 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $167,114 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Philadelphia County births in the year 2006 was 23,008 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 15,420. Infant deaths that year numbered 281.

In 2007, Philadelphia County, PA jobs totaled 771,790 across all industries. This was a change of -8,349 jobs from 2000. The number of Philadelphia County jobs in government in 2007 was 110,395. Workers traveled an average of 32.0 minutes to work each day.

There were 67,006 businesses in Philadelphia County in 2002. These include 28.3% of businesses listed as owned by women, 15.8% of businesses owned by blacks, 4.8% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 9.5% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.3% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Philadelphia County devoted to farming was 262 acres in 2007.

In 2000 17.7% 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 9.0%.

The percentage of adults in Philadelphia County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 71.2%. About 17.9% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Philadelphia County with a disability is 354,409.

There were 629,917 civilians working in Philadelphia County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 63,289 (or 10.0% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,135,977 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 110,478 residents less than five years old, (7.1% of residents), 362,879 less than eighteen years old (23.5% of residents), and 192,683 of the population of Philadelphia County was over the age of sixty-five (12.5% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 53.2%. The population classified as white was 751,673 (48.6%), black: 675,987 (43.7%), Asian: 88,321 (5.7%), two or more races: 22,345 (1.4%), Hispanic or Latino: 181,292 (11.7%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Philadelphia County, PA was $11,639,946 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $12,643,546 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $9,093,922 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $49,115,992 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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