Iowa Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Iowa Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Iowa is 55,869 square miles. There are on average 52.4 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 2,926,324 people living in the state within 1,149,276 households (averaging 2.46 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 3,007,856 with an estimated 2.8% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Iowa was $19,674. By 2007 the income was $34,916. The average income in each household was $49,007 in 2008. The percentage of Iowa residents living in poverty in 2008 was 11.4%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $104,168 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $38,931 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 1,334,418 housing units within the state of Iowa, a change of 101,883 from 2000 (or about 8.3%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 72.3%. The median value of each house was about $82,500 in the state in 2000. 7,729 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,198,249 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Iowa births in the year 2006 was 40,607 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 27,362. Infant deaths that year numbered 208.

In 2007, Iowa jobs totaled 2,034,878 across all industries. This was a change of 100,801 jobs from 2000. The number of Iowa jobs in government in 2007 was 264,320. Workers traveled an average of 18.5 minutes to work each day.

There were 236,515 businesses in Iowa in 2002. These include 27.0% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.7% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.6% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 0.8% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.3% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Iowa devoted to farming was 30,747,550 acres in 2007.

In 2000 5.8% 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 3.1%.

The percentage of adults in Iowa over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 86.1%. About 21.2% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Iowa with a disability is 446,665.

There were 1,673,806 civilians working in Iowa in 2009. The number unemployed was 99,780 (or 6.0% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $3,698,955 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 203,997 residents less than five years old, (6.8% of residents), 713,155 less than eighteen years old (23.7% of residents), and 444,294 of the population of Iowa was over the age of sixty-five (14.8% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.6%. The population classified as white was 2,824,723 (93.9%), black: 84,054 (2.8%), Asian: 49,975 (1.7%), two or more races: 34,247 (1.1%), Hispanic or Latino: 134,402 (4.5%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Iowa was $65,042,043 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $33,546,948 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $31,195,012 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $79,219,288 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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