Watauga County, NC Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Watauga County, North Carolina Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Watauga County is 312.51 square miles. There are on average 136.4 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 42,695 people living in the county within 16,540 households (averaging 2.26 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 45,479 with an estimated 6.5% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Watauga County, NC was $17,258. By 2007 the income was $30,568. The average income in each household was $39,490 in 2008. The percentage of Watauga County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 18.9%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $1,359 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $31,012 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 27,843 housing units within the county, a change of 4,681 from 2000 (or about 20.2%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 62.9%. The median value of each house was about $139,300 in the county in 2000. 230 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $49,939 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Watauga County births in the year 2006 was 383 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 321. Infant deaths that year numbered 4.

In 2007, Watauga County, NC jobs totaled 31,999 across all industries. This was a change of 3,671 jobs from 2000. The number of Watauga County jobs in government in 2007 was 5,666. Workers traveled an average of 20.4 minutes to work each day.

There were 5,131 businesses in Watauga County in 2002. These include 21.8% of businesses listed as owned by women, and 0.0% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Watauga County devoted to farming was 45,782 acres in 2007.

In 2000 4.6% 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 1.9%.

The percentage of adults in Watauga County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 81.6%. About 33.2% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Watauga County with a disability is 6,338.

There were 24,412 civilians working in Watauga County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 1,832 (or 7.5% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $101,381 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 1,979 residents less than five years old, (4.4% of residents), 6,492 less than eighteen years old (14.3% of residents), and 5,777 of the population of Watauga County was over the age of sixty-five (12.7% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.1%. The population classified as white was 43,575 (95.8%), black: 954 (2.1%), Asian: 366 (0.8%), two or more races: 407 (0.9%), Hispanic or Latino: 949 (2.1%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Watauga County, NC was $116,019 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $115,568 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $631,298 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $992,356 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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