Michigan Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Michigan Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Michigan is 56,803 square miles. There are on average 175.0 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 9,938,444 people living in the state within 3,785,661 households (averaging 2.56 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 9,969,727 with an estimated 0.3% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Michigan was $22,168. By 2007 the income was $34,423. The average income in each household was $48,606 in 2008. The percentage of Michigan residents living in poverty in 2008 was 14.4%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $345,940 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $48,082 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 4,541,693 housing units within the state of Michigan, a change of 307,431 from 2000 (or about 7.3%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 73.8%. The median value of each house was about $115,600 in the state in 2000. 6,884 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,172,913 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Michigan births in the year 2006 was 127,483 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 86,042. Infant deaths that year numbered 940.

In 2007, Michigan jobs totaled 5,454,613 across all industries. This was a change of -174,885 jobs from 2000. The number of Michigan jobs in government in 2007 was 671,033. Workers traveled an average of 24.1 minutes to work each day.

There were 735,531 businesses in Michigan in 2002. These include 29.6% of businesses listed as owned by women, 6.0% of businesses owned by blacks, 1.3% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 2.1% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.7% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Michigan devoted to farming was 10,031,807 acres in 2007.

In 2000 8.4% 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 5.3%.

The percentage of adults in Michigan over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 83.4%. About 21.8% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Michigan with a disability is 1,711,231.

There were 4,888,722 civilians working in Michigan in 2009. The number unemployed was 665,020 (or 13.6% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $12,248,269 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 616,055 residents less than five years old, (6.2% of residents), 2,349,892 less than eighteen years old (23.6% of residents), and 1,339,772 of the population of Michigan was over the age of sixty-five (13.4% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.8%. The population classified as white was 8,091,776 (81.2%), black: 1,413,582 (14.2%), Asian: 241,597 (2.4%), two or more races: 155,850 (1.6%), Hispanic or Latino: 421,106 (4.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Michigan was $221433262 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $165958945 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $109350139 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $262266065 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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