New York Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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New York Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in New York is 47,213 square miles. There are on average 401.9 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 18,976,457 people living in the state within 7,056,860 households (averaging 2.61 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 19,541,453 with an estimated 3.0% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for New York was $23,389. By 2007 the income was $46,364. The average income in each household was $55,980 in 2008. The percentage of New York residents living in poverty in 2008 was 13.7%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $900,819 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $65,852 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 8,017,263 housing units within the state of New York, a change of 337,960 from 2000 (or about 4.4%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 53.0%. The median value of each house was about $148,700 in the state in 2000. 18,344 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $3,062,271 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of New York births in the year 2006 was 250,104 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 148,806. Infant deaths that year numbered 1,407.

In 2007, New York jobs totaled 11,039,874 across all industries. This was a change of 584,465 jobs from 2000. The number of New York jobs in government in 2007 was 1,510,520. Workers traveled an average of 31.7 minutes to work each day.

There were 1,707,168 businesses in New York in 2002. These include 29.6% of businesses listed as owned by women, 7.6% of businesses owned by blacks, 9.6% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 8.5% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.7% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in New York devoted to farming was 7,174,743 acres in 2007.

In 2000 28.0% 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 20.4%.

The percentage of adults in New York over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 79.1%. About 27.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in New York with a disability is 3,606,147.

There were 9,699,492 civilians working in New York in 2009. The number unemployed was 813,386 (or 8.4% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $27,835,952 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 1,223,080 residents less than five years old, (6.3% of residents), 4,424,083 less than eighteen years old (22.6% of residents), and 2,619,755 of the population of New York was over the age of sixty-five (13.4% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.4%. The population classified as white was 14,350,944 (73.4%), black: 3,352,100 (17.2%), Asian: 1,387,848 (7.1%), two or more races: 319,689 (1.6%), Hispanic or Latino: 3,274,385 (16.8%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in New York was $147317463 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $343663041 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $178067530 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $726998385 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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