Georgia Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Georgia Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Georgia is 57,906 square miles. There are on average 141.4 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 8,186,453 people living in the state within 3,006,369 households (averaging 2.65 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 9,829,211 with an estimated 20.1% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Georgia was $21,154. By 2007 the income was $33,499. The average income in each household was $50,834 in 2008. The percentage of Georgia residents living in poverty in 2008 was 14.7%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $319,018 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $45,321 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 4,062,400 housing units within the state of Georgia, a change of 780,558 from 2000 (or about 23.8%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 67.5%. The median value of each house was about $111,200 in the state in 2000. 18,228 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $2,618,126 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Georgia births in the year 2006 was 148,633 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 67,808. Infant deaths that year numbered 1,206.

In 2007, Georgia jobs totaled 5,559,982 across all industries. This was a change of 667,688 jobs from 2000. The number of Georgia jobs in government in 2007 was 786,034. Workers traveled an average of 27.7 minutes to work each day.

There were 674,521 businesses in Georgia in 2002. These include 29.1% of businesses listed as owned by women, 13.4% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.7% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 4.0% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.7% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Georgia devoted to farming was 10,150,539 acres in 2007.

In 2000 9.9% 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 7.1%.

The percentage of adults in Georgia over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 78.6%. About 24.3% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Georgia with a disability is 1,456,812.

There were 4,768,923 civilians working in Georgia in 2009. The number unemployed was 457,195 (or 9.6% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $12,740,423 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 751,215 residents less than five years old, (7.6% of residents), 2,583,792 less than eighteen years old (26.3% of residents), and 1,014,814 of the population of Georgia was over the age of sixty-five (10.3% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.8%. The population classified as white was 6,391,950 (65.0%), black: 2,970,607 (30.2%), Asian: 290,045 (3.0%), two or more races: 130,390 (1.3%), Hispanic or Latino: 819,887 (8.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Georgia was $126156636 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $201091040 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $90,098,578 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $251981766 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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