Tarrant County, TX Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Tarrant County, Texas Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Tarrant County is 863.42 square miles. There are on average 1,675 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 1,446,219 people living in the county within 533,864 households (averaging 2.67 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,789,900 with an estimated 23.8% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Tarrant County, TX was $22,548. By 2007 the income was $38,538. The average income in each household was $56,265 in 2008. The percentage of Tarrant County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 12.1%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $65,870 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $51,333 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 691,604 housing units within the county, a change of 125,767 from 2000 (or about 22.2%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 60.8%. The median value of each house was about $90,300 in the county in 2000. 5,990 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $941,435 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Tarrant County births in the year 2006 was 29,064 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 10,067. Infant deaths that year numbered 220.

In 2007, Tarrant County, TX jobs totaled 1,027,657 across all industries. This was a change of 139,090 jobs from 2000. The number of Tarrant County jobs in government in 2007 was 103,291. Workers traveled an average of 25.8 minutes to work each day.

There were 119,139 businesses in Tarrant County in 2002. These include 28.4% of businesses listed as owned by women, 6.0% of businesses owned by blacks, 9.3% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 5.1% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.0% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Tarrant County devoted to farming was 154,377 acres in 2007.

In 2000 21.9% 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 12.7%.

The percentage of adults in Tarrant County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 81.3%. About 26.6% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Tarrant County with a disability is 231,504.

There were 898,086 civilians working in Tarrant County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 69,492 (or 7.7% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,422,367 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 152,739 residents less than five years old, (8.5% of residents), 507,390 less than eighteen years old (28.3% of residents), and 155,996 of the population of Tarrant County was over the age of sixty-five (8.7% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.1%. The population classified as white was 1,403,299 (78.4%), black: 258,254 (14.4%), Asian: 77,464 (4.3%), two or more races: 31,484 (1.8%), Hispanic or Latino: 477,354 (26.7%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Tarrant County, TX was $30,364,963 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $32,961,870 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $17,906,814 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $52,752,355 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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