Montana Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Montana Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Montana is 145,552 square miles. There are on average 6.2 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 902,195 people living in the state within 358,667 households (averaging 2.45 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 974,989 with an estimated 8.1% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Montana was $17,151. By 2007 the income was $33,225. The average income in each household was $43,948 in 2008. The percentage of Montana residents living in poverty in 2008 was 14.1%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $31,783 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $34,433 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 441,279 housing units within the state of Montana, a change of 28,648 from 2000 (or about 6.9%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 69.1%. The median value of each house was about $99,500 in the state in 2000. 1,686 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $253,576 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Montana births in the year 2006 was 12,508 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 8,472. Infant deaths that year numbered 73.

In 2007, Montana jobs totaled 647,427 across all industries. This was a change of 88,372 jobs from 2000. The number of Montana jobs in government in 2007 was 93,107. Workers traveled an average of 17.7 minutes to work each day.

There were 100,402 businesses in Montana in 2002. These include 24.4% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.2% of businesses owned by blacks, 1.0% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 0.5% of businesses owned by Asians, and 2.0% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Montana devoted to farming was 61,388,462 acres in 2007.

In 2000 5.2% 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 1.8%.

The percentage of adults in Montana over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 87.2%. About 24.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Montana with a disability is 145,732.

There were 498,907 civilians working in Montana in 2009. The number unemployed was 30,862 (or 6.2% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,537,986 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 62,438 residents less than five years old, (6.4% of residents), 219,828 less than eighteen years old (22.5% of residents), and 141,903 of the population of Montana was over the age of sixty-five (14.6% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.0%. The population classified as white was 880,107 (90.3%), black: 7,282 (0.7%), Asian: 6,810 (0.7%), two or more races: 17,210 (1.8%), Hispanic or Latino: 30,265 (3.1%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Montana was $4,987,577 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $7,223,420 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $10,122,625 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $22,293,038 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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