Alabama Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Alabama Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Alabama is 50,744 square miles. There are on average 87.6 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 4,447,100 people living in the state within 1,737,080 households (averaging 2.49 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 4,708,708 with an estimated 5.9% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Alabama was $18,189. By 2007 the income was $32,419. The average income in each household was $42,586 in 2008. The percentage of Alabama residents living in poverty in 2008 was 15.9%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $149,991 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $41,148 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 2,180,860 housing units within the state of Alabama, a change of 217,001 from 2000 (or about 11.0%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 72.5%. The median value of each house was about $85,100 in the state in 2000. 13,266 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,664,278 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Alabama births in the year 2006 was 63,232 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 46,977. Infant deaths that year numbered 571.

In 2007, Alabama jobs totaled 2,618,073 across all industries. This was a change of 201,651 jobs from 2000. The number of Alabama jobs in government in 2007 was 409,942. Workers traveled an average of 24.8 minutes to work each day.

There were 309,544 businesses in Alabama in 2002. These include 26.4% of businesses listed as owned by women, 9.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.8% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 1.4% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.9% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Alabama devoted to farming was 9,033,537 acres in 2007.

In 2000 3.9% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. The percent of the state's population who were born in a foreign country was 2.0%.

The percentage of adults in Alabama over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 75.3%. About 19.0% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Alabama with a disability is 945,705.

There were 2,112,566 civilians working in Alabama in 2009. The number unemployed was 212,418 (or 10.1% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $4,692,297 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 315,210 residents less than five years old, (6.7% of residents), 1,128,864 less than eighteen years old (24.0% of residents), and 651,049 of the population of Alabama was over the age of sixty-five (13.8% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.5%. The population classified as white was 3,340,085 (70.9%), black: 1,240,739 (26.3%), Asian: 49,031 (1.0%), two or more races: 51,776 (1.1%), Hispanic or Latino: 152,516 (3.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Alabama was $66,686,220 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $43,641,369 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $43,784,342 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $107728492 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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