Oregon Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Oregon Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Oregon is 95,996 square miles. There are on average 35.6 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 3,421,399 people living in the state within 1,333,723 households (averaging 2.51 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 3,825,657 with an estimated 11.8% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Oregon was $20,940. By 2007 the income was $35,143. The average income in each household was $50,165 in 2008. The percentage of Oregon residents living in poverty in 2008 was 13.5%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $131,278 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $42,557 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 1,638,583 housing units within the state of Oregon, a change of 185,857 from 2000 (or about 12.8%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 64.3%. The median value of each house was about $152,100 in the state in 2000. 7,039 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,355,778 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Oregon births in the year 2006 was 48,689 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 31,380. Infant deaths that year numbered 267.

In 2007, Oregon jobs totaled 2,320,043 across all industries. This was a change of 209,128 jobs from 2000. The number of Oregon jobs in government in 2007 was 291,065. Workers traveled an average of 22.2 minutes to work each day.

There were 299,505 businesses in Oregon in 2002. These include 29.5% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.7% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.1% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 3.0% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.0% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Oregon devoted to farming was 16,399,647 acres in 2007.

In 2000 12.1% 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 8.5%.

The percentage of adults in Oregon over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 85.1%. About 25.1% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Oregon with a disability is 593,301.

There were 1,963,567 civilians working in Oregon in 2009. The number unemployed was 217,035 (or 11.1% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $5,527,223 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 247,909 residents less than five years old, (6.5% of residents), 872,811 less than eighteen years old (22.8% of residents), and 516,862 of the population of Oregon was over the age of sixty-five (13.5% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.4%. The population classified as white was 3,435,729 (89.8%), black: 78,348 (2.0%), Asian: 142,728 (3.7%), two or more races: 97,817 (2.6%), Hispanic or Latino: 428,469 (11.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Oregon was $45,864,552 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $56,855,958 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $37,896,022 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $98,733,989 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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