California Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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California Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in California is 155,959 square miles. There are on average 217.2 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 33,871,648 people living in the state within 11,502,870 households (averaging 2.87 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 36,961,664 with an estimated 9.1% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for California was $22,711. By 2007 the income was $41,805. The average income in each household was $61,017 in 2008. The percentage of California residents living in poverty in 2008 was 13.3%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $1,520,755 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $54,896 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 13,433,691 housing units within the state of California, a change of 1,219,143 from 2000 (or about 10.0%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 56.9%. The median value of each house was about $211,500 in the state in 2000. 35,069 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $7,758,491 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of California births in the year 2006 was 562,440 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 237,126. Infant deaths that year numbered 2,835.

In 2007, California jobs totaled 21,245,509 across all industries. This was a change of 1,619,476 jobs from 2000. The number of California jobs in government in 2007 was 2,718,385. Workers traveled an average of 27.7 minutes to work each day.

There were 2,908,758 businesses in California in 2002. These include 29.9% of businesses listed as owned by women, 3.9% of businesses owned by blacks, 14.7% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 12.8% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.3% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in California devoted to farming was 25,364,695 acres in 2007.

In 2000 39.5% 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 26.2%.

The percentage of adults in California over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 76.8%. About 26.6% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in California with a disability is 5,923,361.

There were 18,250,169 civilians working in California in 2009. The number unemployed was 2,086,232 (or 11.4% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $55,559,669 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 2,753,801 residents less than five years old, (7.5% of residents), 9,435,682 less than eighteen years old (25.5% of residents), and 4,148,055 of the population of California was over the age of sixty-five (11.2% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 49.9%. The population classified as white was 28,244,628 (76.4%), black: 2,453,695 (6.6%), Asian: 4,689,992 (12.7%), two or more races: 966,467 (2.6%), Hispanic or Latino: 13,681,375 (37.0%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in California was $378661414 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $655954708 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $359120365 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $1166301978 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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