Santa Clara County, CA Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Santa Clara County, California Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Santa Clara County is 1,290 square miles. There are on average 1,303 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,682,585 people living in the county within 565,863 households (averaging 2.92 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,784,642 with an estimated 6.1% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Santa Clara County, CA was $32,795. By 2007 the income was $60,107. The average income in each household was $88,525 in 2008. The percentage of Santa Clara County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 7.6%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $104,102 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $87,324 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 620,093 housing units within the county, a change of 40,765 from 2000 (or about 7.0%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 59.8%. The median value of each house was about $446,400 in the county in 2000. 1,054 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $305,153 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Santa Clara County births in the year 2006 was 26,948 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 8,952. Infant deaths that year numbered 101.

In 2007, Santa Clara County, CA jobs totaled 1,179,511 across all industries. This was a change of -103,160 jobs from 2000. The number of Santa Clara County jobs in government in 2007 was 96,394. Workers traveled an average of 26.1 minutes to work each day.

There were 134,573 businesses in Santa Clara County in 2002. These include 27.8% of businesses listed as owned by women, 2.1% of businesses owned by blacks, 9.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 22.3% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.0% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Santa Clara County devoted to farming was 299,866 acres in 2007.

In 2000 45.4% 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 34.1%.

The percentage of adults in Santa Clara County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 83.4%. About 40.5% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Santa Clara County with a disability is 254,729.

There were 877,769 civilians working in Santa Clara County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 96,379 (or 11.0% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $3,036,675 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 134,550 residents less than five years old, (7.5% of residents), 436,221 less than eighteen years old (24.4% of residents), and 194,995 of the population of Santa Clara County was over the age of sixty-five (10.9% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 48.9%. The population classified as white was 1,098,769 (61.6%), black: 51,073 (2.9%), Asian: 565,222 (31.7%), two or more races: 48,082 (2.7%), Hispanic or Latino: 468,964 (26.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Santa Clara County, CA was $47,110,263 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $0 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $20,035,462 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $102999770 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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