Massachusetts Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Massachusetts Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Massachusetts is 7,840 square miles. There are on average 809.8 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 6,349,097 people living in the state within 2,443,580 households (averaging 2.51 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 6,593,587 with an estimated 3.9% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Massachusetts was $25,952. By 2007 the income was $48,995. The average income in each household was $65,304 in 2008. The percentage of Massachusetts residents living in poverty in 2008 was 10.1%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $316,896 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $59,458 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 2,747,100 housing units within the state of Massachusetts, a change of 125,093 from 2000 (or about 4.8%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 61.7%. The median value of each house was about $185,700 in the state in 2000. 7,941 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,554,373 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Massachusetts births in the year 2006 was 77,676 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 53,450. Infant deaths that year numbered 370.

In 2007, Massachusetts jobs totaled 4,198,813 across all industries. This was a change of 102,262 jobs from 2000. The number of Massachusetts jobs in government in 2007 was 445,059. Workers traveled an average of 27.0 minutes to work each day.

There were 563,539 businesses in Massachusetts in 2002. These include 28.7% of businesses listed as owned by women, 2.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.8% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 3.2% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Massachusetts devoted to farming was 517,879 acres in 2007.

In 2000 18.7% 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 12.2%.

The percentage of adults in Massachusetts over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 84.8%. About 33.2% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Massachusetts with a disability is 1,084,746.

There were 3,473,497 civilians working in Massachusetts in 2009. The number unemployed was 292,792 (or 8.4% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $11,789,582 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 385,851 residents less than five years old, (5.9% of residents), 1,433,002 less than eighteen years old (21.7% of residents), and 894,514 of the population of Massachusetts was over the age of sixty-five (13.6% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.4%. The population classified as white was 5,664,723 (85.9%), black: 468,838 (7.1%), Asian: 334,709 (5.1%), two or more races: 98,852 (1.5%), Hispanic or Latino: 582,881 (8.8%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Massachusetts was $77,996,586 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $127129789 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $73,903,837 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $249652988 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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