New Hampshire Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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New Hampshire Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in New Hampshire is 8,968 square miles. There are on average 137.8 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 1,235,786 people living in the state within 474,606 households (averaging 2.53 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,324,575 with an estimated 7.2% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for New Hampshire was $23,844. By 2007 the income was $41,639. The average income in each household was $63,235 in 2008. The percentage of New Hampshire residents living in poverty in 2008 was 7.8%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $54,640 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $46,826 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 600,251 housing units within the state of New Hampshire, a change of 53,231 from 2000 (or about 9.7%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 69.7%. The median value of each house was about $133,300 in the state in 2000. 2,287 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $420,774 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of New Hampshire births in the year 2006 was 14,378 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 10,060. Infant deaths that year numbered 87.

In 2007, New Hampshire jobs totaled 848,016 across all industries. This was a change of 63,177 jobs from 2000. The number of New Hampshire jobs in government in 2007 was 94,169. Workers traveled an average of 25.3 minutes to work each day.

There were 125,388 businesses in New Hampshire in 2002. These include 24.7% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.4% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.7% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 1.2% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in New Hampshire devoted to farming was 471,911 acres in 2007.

In 2000 8.3% 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 4.4%.

The percentage of adults in New Hampshire over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 87.4%. About 28.7% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in New Hampshire with a disability is 193,893.

There were 742,132 civilians working in New Hampshire in 2009. The number unemployed was 46,942 (or 6.3% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $2,082,145 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 74,689 residents less than five years old, (5.6% of residents), 289,071 less than eighteen years old (21.8% of residents), and 179,247 of the population of New Hampshire was over the age of sixty-five (13.5% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.7%. The population classified as white was 1,261,735 (95.3%), black: 18,114 (1.4%), Asian: 25,931 (2.0%), two or more races: 14,409 (1.1%), Hispanic or Latino: 36,867 (2.8%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in New Hampshire was $15,235,144 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $13,741,876 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $20,830,057 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $39,708,802 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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