Riverside County, CA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Riverside County, California Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Riverside County is 7,207 square miles. There are on average 214.4 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,545,387 people living in the county within 506,218 households (averaging 2.98 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 2,125,440 with an estimated 37.5% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Riverside County, CA was $18,689. By 2007 the income was $29,560. The average income in each household was $57,590 in 2008. The percentage of Riverside County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 12.6%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $61,024 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $40,227 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 774,573 housing units within the county, a change of 189,920 from 2000 (or about 32.5%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 68.9%. The median value of each house was about $146,500 in the county in 2000. 4,072 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $947,516 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Riverside County births in the year 2006 was 33,669 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 13,927. Infant deaths that year numbered 168.

In 2007, Riverside County, CA jobs totaled 890,590 across all industries. This was a change of 228,186 jobs from 2000. The number of Riverside County jobs in government in 2007 was 128,078. Workers traveled an average of 31.2 minutes to work each day.

There were 121,929 businesses in Riverside County in 2002. These include 29.2% of businesses listed as owned by women, 3.9% of businesses owned by blacks, 18.2% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 6.8% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.1% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Riverside County devoted to farming was 354,753 acres in 2007.

In 2000 32.9% 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 19.0%.

The percentage of adults in Riverside County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 75.0%. About 16.6% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Riverside County with a disability is 280,915.

There were 913,885 civilians working in Riverside County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 123,885 (or 13.6% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,360,637 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 168,539 residents less than five years old, (7.9% of residents), 615,621 less than eighteen years old (29.0% of residents), and 245,456 of the population of Riverside County was over the age of sixty-five (11.5% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.0%. The population classified as white was 1,771,115 (83.3%), black: 144,980 (6.8%), Asian: 119,209 (5.6%), two or more races: 51,799 (2.4%), Hispanic or Latino: 950,103 (44.7%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Riverside County, CA was $10,841,798 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $14,081,468 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $16,301,196 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $35,826,055 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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