Connecticut Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Connecticut Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Connecticut is 4,844 square miles. There are on average 702.9 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 3,405,565 people living in the state within 1,301,670 households (averaging 2.53 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 3,518,288 with an estimated 3.3% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Connecticut was $28,766. By 2007 the income was $54,981. The average income in each household was $68,294 in 2008. The percentage of Connecticut residents living in poverty in 2008 was 9.1%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $191,877 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $63,127 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 1,445,825 housing units within the state of Connecticut, a change of 59,825 from 2000 (or about 4.3%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 66.8%. The median value of each house was about $166,900 in the state in 2000. 3,786 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $715,409 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Connecticut births in the year 2006 was 41,820 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 29,260. Infant deaths that year numbered 260.

In 2007, Connecticut jobs totaled 2,235,248 across all industries. This was a change of 121,291 jobs from 2000. The number of Connecticut jobs in government in 2007 was 268,267. Workers traveled an average of 24.4 minutes to work each day.

There were 301,571 businesses in Connecticut in 2002. These include 27.2% of businesses listed as owned by women, 3.4% of businesses owned by blacks, 3.1% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.4% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Connecticut devoted to farming was 405,616 acres in 2007.

In 2000 18.3% 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 10.9%.

The percentage of adults in Connecticut over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 84.0%. About 31.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Connecticut with a disability is 546,813.

There were 1,889,929 civilians working in Connecticut in 2009. The number unemployed was 155,647 (or 8.2% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $6,681,803 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 210,470 residents less than five years old, (6.0% of residents), 807,985 less than eighteen years old (23.0% of residents), and 488,055 of the population of Connecticut was over the age of sixty-five (13.9% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.2%. The population classified as white was 2,956,387 (84.0%), black: 366,375 (10.4%), Asian: 126,996 (3.6%), two or more races: 52,072 (1.5%), Hispanic or Latino: 434,471 (12.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Connecticut was $45,053,345 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $86,932,049 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $41,952,682 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $141105391 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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