Maine Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Maine Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Maine is 30,861 square miles. There are on average 41.3 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 1,274,923 people living in the state within 518,200 households (averaging 2.39 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,318,301 with an estimated 3.4% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Maine was $19,533. By 2007 the income was $33,991. The average income in each household was $46,419 in 2008. The percentage of Maine residents living in poverty in 2008 was 12.6%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $44,711 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $37,561 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 704,578 housing units within the state of Maine, a change of 52,681 from 2000 (or about 8.1%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 71.6%. The median value of each house was about $98,700 in the state in 2000. 3,121 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $493,221 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Maine births in the year 2006 was 14,151 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 12,294. Infant deaths that year numbered 89.

In 2007, Maine jobs totaled 830,221 across all industries. This was a change of 37,966 jobs from 2000. The number of Maine jobs in government in 2007 was 112,112. Workers traveled an average of 22.7 minutes to work each day.

There were 135,410 businesses in Maine in 2002. These include 24.0% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.2% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.5% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 0.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.5% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Maine devoted to farming was 1,347,566 acres in 2007.

In 2000 7.8% 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 2.9%.

The percentage of adults in Maine over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 85.4%. About 22.9% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Maine with a disability is 237,910.

There were 704,134 civilians working in Maine in 2009. The number unemployed was 56,669 (or 8.0% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,045,841 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 70,762 residents less than five years old, (5.4% of residents), 271,176 less than eighteen years old (20.6% of residents), and 205,617 of the population of Maine was over the age of sixty-five (15.6% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.2%. The population classified as white was 1,267,444 (96.1%), black: 15,327 (1.2%), Asian: 12,757 (1.0%), two or more races: 14,222 (1.1%), Hispanic or Latino: 18,265 (1.4%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Maine was $13,851,915 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $10,371,084 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $16,053,515 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $31,183,763 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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