Sacramento County, CA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Sacramento County, California Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Sacramento County is 965.65 square miles. There are on average 1,266 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,223,499 people living in the county within 453,602 households (averaging 2.64 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,400,949 with an estimated 14.5% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Sacramento County, CA was $21,142. By 2007 the income was $36,340. The average income in each household was $56,882 in 2008. The percentage of Sacramento County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 13.3%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $50,157 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $53,058 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 552,841 housing units within the county, a change of 78,027 from 2000 (or about 16.4%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 58.2%. The median value of each house was about $144,200 in the county in 2000. 982 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $220,001 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Sacramento County births in the year 2006 was 21,956 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 10,030. Infant deaths that year numbered 120.

In 2007, Sacramento County, CA jobs totaled 825,155 across all industries. This was a change of 96,352 jobs from 2000. The number of Sacramento County jobs in government in 2007 was 190,763. Workers traveled an average of 25.4 minutes to work each day.

There were 90,876 businesses in Sacramento County in 2002. These include 31.7% of businesses listed as owned by women, 4.8% of businesses owned by blacks, 8.7% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 11.9% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.2% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Sacramento County devoted to farming was 328,593 acres in 2007.

In 2000 24.4% 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 16.1%.

The percentage of adults in Sacramento County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 83.3%. About 24.8% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Sacramento County with a disability is 224,148.

There were 687,602 civilians working in Sacramento County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 77,964 (or 11.3% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,665,556 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 106,573 residents less than five years old, (7.6% of residents), 361,552 less than eighteen years old (25.8% of residents), and 157,628 of the population of Sacramento County was over the age of sixty-five (11.3% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.8%. The population classified as white was 971,423 (69.3%), black: 147,645 (10.5%), Asian: 190,276 (13.6%), two or more races: 61,512 (4.4%), Hispanic or Latino: 287,056 (20.5%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Sacramento County, CA was $6,459,839 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $12,852,250 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $13,730,077 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $43,781,466 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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