Queens County, NY Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Queens County, New York Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Queens County is 109.24 square miles. There are on average 20,453 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 2,229,379 people living in the county within 782,664 households (averaging 2.81 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 2,306,712 with an estimated 3.5% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Queens County, NY was $19,222. By 2007 the income was $36,073. The average income in each household was $55,599 in 2008. The percentage of Queens County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 12.3%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $82,167 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $43,875 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 845,969 housing units within the county, a change of 28,719 from 2000 (or about 3.5%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 42.8%. The median value of each house was about $212,600 in the county in 2000. 1,474 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $170,975 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Queens County births in the year 2006 was 30,363 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 14,800. Infant deaths that year numbered 166.

In 2007, Queens County, NY jobs totaled 737,955 across all industries. This was a change of 81,217 jobs from 2000. The number of Queens County jobs in government in 2007 was 40,325. Workers traveled an average of 42.2 minutes to work each day.

There were 189,389 businesses in Queens County in 2002. These include 28.3% of businesses listed as owned by women, 9.9% of businesses owned by blacks, 18.6% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 25.5% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.0% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

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

In 2000 53.6% 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 46.1%.

The percentage of adults in Queens County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 74.4%. About 24.3% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Queens County with a disability is 490,592.

There were 1,133,071 civilians working in Queens County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 97,236 (or 8.6% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,748,340 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 148,918 residents less than five years old, (6.5% of residents), 494,057 less than eighteen years old (21.4% of residents), and 300,922 of the population of Queens County was over the age of sixty-five (13.0% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.3%. The population classified as white was 1,268,280 (55.0%), black: 461,235 (20.0%), Asian: 511,513 (22.2%), two or more races: 45,623 (2.0%), Hispanic or Latino: 620,205 (26.9%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Queens County, NY was $6,092,932 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $13,868,922 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $11,226,779 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $32,377,856 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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