Wayne County, MI Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Wayne County, Michigan Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Wayne County is 614.15 square miles. There are on average 3,356 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 2,061,162 people living in the county within 768,440 households (averaging 2.64 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had decreased to 1,925,848 with an estimated -6.6% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Wayne County, MI was $20,058. By 2007 the income was $31,724. The average income in each household was $42,463 in 2008. The percentage of Wayne County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 20.5%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $62,865 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $58,132 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 836,639 housing units within the county, a change of 10,495 from 2000 (or about 1.3%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 66.6%. The median value of each house was about $99,400 in the county in 2000. 288 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $51,884 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Wayne County births in the year 2006 was 27,412 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 18,621. Infant deaths that year numbered 273.

In 2007, Wayne County, MI jobs totaled 954,077 across all industries. This was a change of -84,620 jobs from 2000. The number of Wayne County jobs in government in 2007 was 119,869. Workers traveled an average of 25.8 minutes to work each day.

There were 108,455 businesses in Wayne County in 2002. These include 34.0% of businesses listed as owned by women, 21.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.0% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 3.3% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.7% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Wayne County devoted to farming was 17,443 acres in 2007.

In 2000 10.8% 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 6.7%.

The percentage of adults in Wayne County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 77.0%. About 17.2% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Wayne County with a disability is 433,933.

There were 868,123 civilians working in Wayne County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 140,424 (or 16.2% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,305,993 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 127,757 residents less than five years old, (6.6% of residents), 487,257 less than eighteen years old (25.3% of residents), and 234,767 of the population of Wayne County was over the age of sixty-five (12.2% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.9%. The population classified as white was 1,060,806 (55.1%), black: 779,483 (40.5%), Asian: 49,216 (2.6%), two or more races: 28,068 (1.5%), Hispanic or Latino: 100,187 (5.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Wayne County, MI was $52,401,486 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $44,320,325 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $17,444,033 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $55,462,400 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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