Westchester County, NY Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Westchester County, New York Population, Demographics and Statistics

The total area of the land in Westchester County is 432.82 square miles. There are on average 2,132 people living within each square mile of the county. In 2000 there were 923,459 people living in the county within 337,142 households (averaging 2.67 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 955,962 with an estimated 3.5% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Westchester County, NY was $36,726. By 2007 the income was $74,878. The average income in each household was $79,195 in 2008. The percentage of Westchester County residents living in poverty in 2008 was 8.4%. The total personal income for the county in 2007 was $71,102 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $68,064 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 361,402 housing units within the county, a change of 11,957 from 2000 (or about 3.4%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 60.1%. The median value of each house was about $325,800 in the county in 2000. 459 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $135,430 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Westchester County births in the year 2006 was 11,945 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 7,099. Infant deaths that year numbered 51.

In 2007, Westchester County, NY jobs totaled 575,319 across all industries. This was a change of 48,321 jobs from 2000. The number of Westchester County jobs in government in 2007 was 67,557. Workers traveled an average of 32.7 minutes to work each day.

There were 106,366 businesses in Westchester County in 2002. These include 29.2% of businesses listed as owned by women, 6.6% of businesses owned by blacks, 7.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 4.7% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.5% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Westchester County devoted to farming was 8,521 acres in 2007.

In 2000 28.4% 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 22.2%.

The percentage of adults in Westchester County over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 83.6%. About 40.9% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Westchester County with a disability is 147,066.

There were 489,429 civilians working in Westchester County jobs in 2009. The number unemployed was 34,739 (or 7.1% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,322,936 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 59,394 residents less than five years old, (6.2% of residents), 229,936 less than eighteen years old (24.1% of residents), and 135,355 of the population of Westchester County was over the age of sixty-five (14.2% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.5%. The population classified as white was 740,781 (77.5%), black: 137,917 (14.4%), Asian: 57,876 (6.1%), two or more races: 14,441 (1.5%), Hispanic or Latino: 189,126 (19.8%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Westchester County, NY was $4,180,869 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $37,819,511 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $11,807,085 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $39,158,285 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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