St. Louis County, MO Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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St. Louis County, Missouri Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in St. Louis County is 507.81 square miles. There are on average 2,000 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,016,315 people living in the county within 404,312 households (averaging 2.47 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had decreased to 992,408 with an estimated -2.4% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for St. Louis County, MO was $27,595. By 2007 the income was $51,710. The average income in each household was $57,782 in 2008. The percentage of St. Louis County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 9.0%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $51,375 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $53,471 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 435,939 housing units within the county, a change of 12,208 from 2000 (or about 2.9%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 74.1%. The median value of each house was about $116,600 in the county in 2000. 585 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $190,043 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of St. Louis County births in the year 2006 was 12,425 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 9,359. Infant deaths that year numbered 98.

In 2007, St. Louis County, MO jobs totaled 780,048 across all industries. This was a change of -7,217 jobs from 2000. The number of St. Louis County jobs in government in 2007 was 61,621. Workers traveled an average of 24.0 minutes to work each day.

There were 81,372 businesses in St. Louis County in 2002. These include 28.3% of businesses listed as owned by women, 7.2% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.7% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.6% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in St. Louis County devoted to farming was 32,292 acres in 2007.

In 2000 6.4% 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 4.2%.

The percentage of adults in St. Louis County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 88.0%. About 35.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in St. Louis County with a disability is 146,383.

There were 516,614 civilians working in St. Louis County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 46,541 (or 9.0% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,965,119 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 60,712 residents less than five years old, (6.1% of residents), 233,595 less than eighteen years old (23.5% of residents), and 145,381 of the population of St. Louis County was over the age of sixty-five (14.6% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 52.3%. The population classified as white was 725,286 (73.1%), black: 217,278 (21.9%), Asian: 32,837 (3.3%), two or more races: 13,244 (1.3%), Hispanic or Latino: 23,946 (2.4%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in St. Louis County, MO was $23,406,976 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $30,548,854 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $14,370,172 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $41,709,931 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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