North Dakota Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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North Dakota Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in North Dakota is 68,975 square miles. There are on average 9.3 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 642,200 people living in the state within 257,152 households (averaging 2.41 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 646,844 with an estimated 0.7% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for North Dakota was $17,769. By 2007 the income was $36,082. The average income in each household was $45,996 in 2008. The percentage of North Dakota residents living in poverty in 2008 was 11.5%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $23,017 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $38,430 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 316,435 housing units within the state of North Dakota, a change of 26,758 from 2000 (or about 9.2%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 66.6%. The median value of each house was about $74,400 in the state in 2000. 3,195 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $352,449 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of North Dakota births in the year 2006 was 8,621 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 5,868. Infant deaths that year numbered 50.

In 2007, North Dakota jobs totaled 487,337 across all industries. This was a change of 39,957 jobs from 2000. The number of North Dakota jobs in government in 2007 was 81,218. Workers traveled an average of 15.8 minutes to work each day.

There were 56,781 businesses in North Dakota in 2002. These include 23.3% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.1% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.4% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 0.5% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.5% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in North Dakota devoted to farming was 39,674,586 acres in 2007.

In 2000 6.3% 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 1.9%.

The percentage of adults in North Dakota over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 83.9%. About 22.0% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in North Dakota with a disability is 97,817.

There were 364,970 civilians working in North Dakota in 2009. The number unemployed was 15,872 (or 4.3% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $854,656 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 43,401 residents less than five years old, (6.7% of residents), 143,971 less than eighteen years old (22.3% of residents), and 94,870 of the population of North Dakota was over the age of sixty-five (14.7% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 49.8%. The population classified as white was 589,112 (91.1%), black: 7,813 (1.2%), Asian: 5,328 (0.8%), two or more races: 8,015 (1.2%), Hispanic or Latino: 14,718 (2.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in North Dakota was $6,856,653 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $8,806,340 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $7,723,945 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $18,728,543 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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