Alaska Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Alaska Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Alaska is 571,951 square miles. There are on average 1.1 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 626,932 people living in the state within 221,600 households (averaging 2.74 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 698,473 with an estimated 11.4% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Alaska was $22,660. By 2007 the income was $40,042. The average income in each household was $67,332 in 2008. The percentage of Alaska residents living in poverty in 2008 was 9.2%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $27,273 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $50,830 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 283,879 housing units within the state of Alaska, a change of 22,916 from 2000 (or about 8.8%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 62.5%. The median value of each house was about $144,200 in the state in 2000. 916 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $195,223 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Alaska births in the year 2006 was 10,996 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 3,354. Infant deaths that year numbered 76.

In 2007, Alaska jobs totaled 445,031 across all industries. This was a change of 50,014 jobs from 2000. The number of Alaska jobs in government in 2007 was 104,824. Workers traveled an average of 19.6 minutes to work each day.

There were 62,145 businesses in Alaska in 2002. These include 26.2% of businesses listed as owned by women, 1.5% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.0% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 3.1% of businesses owned by Asians, and 8.3% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Alaska devoted to farming was 881,585 acres in 2007.

In 2000 14.3% 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 5.9%.

The percentage of adults in Alaska over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 88.3%. About 24.7% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Alaska with a disability is 83,220.

There were 360,877 civilians working in Alaska in 2009. The number unemployed was 28,751 (or 8.0% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,393,225 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 54,463 residents less than five years old, (7.8% of residents), 183,546 less than eighteen years old (26.3% of residents), and 52,849 of the population of Alaska was over the age of sixty-five (7.6% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 48.1%. The population classified as white was 490,858 (70.3%), black: 29,396 (4.2%), Asian: 34,590 (5.0%), two or more races: 32,507 (4.7%), Hispanic or Latino: 44,480 (6.4%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Alaska was $3,832,024 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $3,616,674 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $7,437,071 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $22,621,098 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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