Travis County, TX Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Travis County, Texas Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Travis County is 989.30 square miles. There are on average 821.3 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 812,280 people living in the county within 320,766 households (averaging 2.47 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,026,158 with an estimated 26.3% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Travis County, TX was $25,883. By 2007 the income was $40,430. The average income in each household was $55,650 in 2008. The percentage of Travis County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 14.4%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $39,213 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $52,257 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 435,644 housing units within the county, a change of 99,760 from 2000 (or about 29.7%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 51.4%. The median value of each house was about $134,700 in the county in 2000. 5,249 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $722,418 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Travis County births in the year 2006 was 16,157 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 4,359. Infant deaths that year numbered 95.

In 2007, Travis County, TX jobs totaled 769,024 across all industries. This was a change of 96,561 jobs from 2000. The number of Travis County jobs in government in 2007 was 123,205. Workers traveled an average of 23.6 minutes to work each day.

There were 79,258 businesses in Travis County in 2002. These include 28.8% of businesses listed as owned by women, 4.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 11.8% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 4.1% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.0% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Travis County devoted to farming was 262,481 acres in 2007.

In 2000 28.7% 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 15.1%.

The percentage of adults in Travis County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 84.7%. About 40.6% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Travis County with a disability is 111,514.

There were 549,264 civilians working in Travis County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 36,879 (or 6.7% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,953,197 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 82,065 residents less than five years old, (8.0% of residents), 246,456 less than eighteen years old (24.0% of residents), and 70,474 of the population of Travis County was over the age of sixty-five (6.9% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 48.4%. The population classified as white was 852,378 (83.1%), black: 90,426 (8.8%), Asian: 56,448 (5.5%), two or more races: 17,244 (1.7%), Hispanic or Latino: 341,435 (33.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Travis County, TX was $21,943,746 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $0 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $10,544,294 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $40,187,103 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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