San Diego County, CA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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San Diego County, California Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in San Diego County is 4,199 square miles. There are on average 670.0 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 2,813,833 people living in the county within 994,677 households (averaging 2.73 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 3,053,793 with an estimated 8.5% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for San Diego County, CA was $22,926. By 2007 the income was $44,430. The average income in each household was $62,820 in 2008. The percentage of San Diego County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 12.6%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $131,500 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $53,722 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 1,142,245 housing units within the county, a change of 102,095 from 2000 (or about 9.8%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 55.4%. The median value of each house was about $227,200 in the county in 2000. 2,946 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $687,859 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of San Diego County births in the year 2006 was 46,898 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 19,294. Infant deaths that year numbered 216.

In 2007, San Diego County, CA jobs totaled 1,924,830 across all industries. This was a change of 191,306 jobs from 2000. The number of San Diego County jobs in government in 2007 was 337,296. Workers traveled an average of 25.3 minutes to work each day.

There were 244,445 businesses in San Diego County in 2002. These include 30.1% of businesses listed as owned by women, 2.7% of businesses owned by blacks, 13.4% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 8.0% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.9% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in San Diego County devoted to farming was 303,889 acres in 2007.

In 2000 33.0% 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 21.5%.

The percentage of adults in San Diego County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 82.6%. About 29.5% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in San Diego County with a disability is 448,590.

There were 1,557,369 civilians working in San Diego County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 151,299 (or 9.7% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $6,331,146 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 228,868 residents less than five years old, (7.5% of residents), 739,625 less than eighteen years old (24.2% of residents), and 347,859 of the population of San Diego County was over the age of sixty-five (11.4% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 49.8%. The population classified as white was 2,424,183 (79.4%), black: 169,851 (5.6%), Asian: 317,495 (10.4%), two or more races: 93,906 (3.1%), Hispanic or Latino: 957,246 (31.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in San Diego County, CA was $25,798,424 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $31,314,549 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $31,586,056 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $103406024 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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