Maryland Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Maryland Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Maryland is 9,773 square miles. There are on average 541.9 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 5,296,486 people living in the state within 1,980,859 households (averaging 2.61 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 5,699,478 with an estimated 7.6% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Maryland was $25,614. By 2007 the income was $46,471. The average income in each household was $70,482 in 2008. The percentage of Maryland residents living in poverty in 2008 was 8.2%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $261,115 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $52,859 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 2,342,104 housing units within the state of Maryland, a change of 196,801 from 2000 (or about 9.2%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 67.7%. The median value of each house was about $146,000 in the state in 2000. 11,123 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $2,089,028 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Maryland births in the year 2006 was 77,494 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 43,582. Infant deaths that year numbered 616.

In 2007, Maryland jobs totaled 3,437,502 across all industries. This was a change of 345,955 jobs from 2000. The number of Maryland jobs in government in 2007 was 542,254. Workers traveled an average of 31.2 minutes to work each day.

There were 443,540 businesses in Maryland in 2002. These include 31.0% of businesses listed as owned by women, 15.6% of businesses owned by blacks, 3.5% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 5.9% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.8% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Maryland devoted to farming was 2,051,756 acres in 2007.

In 2000 12.6% 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 9.8%.

The percentage of adults in Maryland over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 83.8%. About 31.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Maryland with a disability is 854,345.

There were 2,986,933 civilians working in Maryland in 2009. The number unemployed was 209,323 (or 7.0% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $7,832,268 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 380,606 residents less than five years old, (6.7% of residents), 1,351,935 less than eighteen years old (23.7% of residents), and 694,796 of the population of Maryland was over the age of sixty-five (12.2% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.5%. The population classified as white was 3,588,912 (63.0%), black: 1,691,143 (29.7%), Asian: 297,997 (5.2%), two or more races: 95,514 (1.7%), Hispanic or Latino: 411,133 (7.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Maryland was $36,363,340 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $60,679,602 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $60,039,971 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $181703421 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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