Shelby County, TN Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Shelby County, Tennessee Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Shelby County is 754.53 square miles. There are on average 1,188 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 897,472 people living in the county within 338,366 households (averaging 2.60 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 920,232 with an estimated 2.5% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Shelby County, TN was $20,856. By 2007 the income was $40,265. The average income in each household was $45,722 in 2008. The percentage of Shelby County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 18.0%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $36,603 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $53,264 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 402,797 housing units within the county, a change of 39,843 from 2000 (or about 11.0%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 63.1%. The median value of each house was about $92,200 in the county in 2000. 894 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $133,940 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Shelby County births in the year 2006 was 15,200 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 7,533. Infant deaths that year numbered 209.

In 2007, Shelby County, TN jobs totaled 648,974 across all industries. This was a change of 17,355 jobs from 2000. The number of Shelby County jobs in government in 2007 was 80,723. Workers traveled an average of 23.7 minutes to work each day.

There were 61,752 businesses in Shelby County in 2002. These include 27.4% of businesses listed as owned by women, 22.4% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.9% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.6% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Shelby County devoted to farming was 92,299 acres in 2007.

In 2000 6.5% 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 3.8%.

The percentage of adults in Shelby County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 80.8%. About 25.3% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Shelby County with a disability is 168,706.

There were 434,200 civilians working in Shelby County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 44,067 (or 10.1% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,427,456 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 72,561 residents less than five years old, (7.9% of residents), 250,454 less than eighteen years old (27.2% of residents), and 93,716 of the population of Shelby County was over the age of sixty-five (10.2% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 52.3%. The population classified as white was 406,700 (44.2%), black: 478,477 (52.0%), Asian: 20,977 (2.3%), two or more races: 9,741 (1.1%), Hispanic or Latino: 47,221 (5.1%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Shelby County, TN was $11,809,121 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $37,073,207 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $10,052,067 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $34,567,130 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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