Arizona Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Arizona Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Arizona is 113,634 square miles. There are on average 45.2 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 5,130,632 people living in the state within 1,901,327 households (averaging 2.64 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 6,595,778 with an estimated 28.6% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Arizona was $20,275. By 2007 the income was $32,833. The average income in each household was $51,009 in 2008. The percentage of Arizona residents living in poverty in 2008 was 14.7%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $208,603 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $43,927 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 2,757,366 housing units within the state of Arizona, a change of 568,192 from 2000 (or about 26.0%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 68.0%. The median value of each house was about $121,300 in the state in 2000. 14,474 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $2,736,023 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Arizona births in the year 2006 was 102,429 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 46,365. Infant deaths that year numbered 651.

In 2007, Arizona jobs totaled 3,520,657 across all industries. This was a change of 701,355 jobs from 2000. The number of Arizona jobs in government in 2007 was 448,567. Workers traveled an average of 24.9 minutes to work each day.

There were 381,180 businesses in Arizona in 2002. These include 28.8% of businesses listed as owned by women, 1.7% of businesses owned by blacks, 9.2% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.7% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.7% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Arizona devoted to farming was 26,117,899 acres in 2007.

In 2000 25.9% 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 12.8%.

The percentage of adults in Arizona over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 81.0%. About 23.5% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Arizona with a disability is 902,252.

There were 3,142,641 civilians working in Arizona in 2009. The number unemployed was 284,444 (or 9.1% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $8,612,730 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 518,431 residents less than five years old, (7.9% of residents), 1,732,019 less than eighteen years old (26.3% of residents), and 866,734 of the population of Arizona was over the age of sixty-five (13.1% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 49.9%. The population classified as white was 5,677,252 (86.1%), black: 290,422 (4.4%), Asian: 173,314 (2.6%), two or more races: 120,561 (1.8%), Hispanic or Latino: 2,031,650 (30.8%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Arizona was $41,910,739 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $60,976,999 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $56,457,863 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $154651463 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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