Illinois Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Illinois Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Illinois is 55,583 square miles. There are on average 223.4 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 12,419,293 people living in the state within 4,591,779 households (averaging 2.63 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 12,910,409 with an estimated 4.0% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Illinois was $23,104. By 2007 the income was $41,012. The average income in each household was $56,230 in 2008. The percentage of Illinois residents living in poverty in 2008 was 12.2%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $526,006 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $53,086 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 5,292,003 housing units within the state of Illinois, a change of 406,255 from 2000 (or about 8.3%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 67.3%. The median value of each house was about $130,800 in the state in 2000. 10,859 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $2,100,663 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Illinois births in the year 2006 was 180,572 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 102,171. Infant deaths that year numbered 1,309.

In 2007, Illinois jobs totaled 7,608,799 across all industries. This was a change of 192,490 jobs from 2000. The number of Illinois jobs in government in 2007 was 900,277. Workers traveled an average of 28.0 minutes to work each day.

There were 958,120 businesses in Illinois in 2002. These include 29.7% of businesses listed as owned by women, 7.2% of businesses owned by blacks, 4.1% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 4.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Illinois devoted to farming was 26,775,100 acres in 2007.

In 2000 19.2% 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 12.3%.

The percentage of adults in Illinois over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 81.4%. About 26.1% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Illinois with a disability is 1,999,717.

There were 6,606,103 civilians working in Illinois in 2009. The number unemployed was 664,946 (or 10.1% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $19,072,168 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 893,952 residents less than five years old, (6.9% of residents), 3,177,377 less than eighteen years old (24.6% of residents), and 1,594,473 of the population of Illinois was over the age of sixty-five (12.4% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.7%. The population classified as white was 10,195,829 (79.0%), black: 1,926,551 (14.9%), Asian: 567,673 (4.4%), two or more races: 165,158 (1.3%), Hispanic or Latino: 1,968,599 (15.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Illinois was $188365216 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $317467059 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $131469518 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $403923009 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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