Tennessee Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Tennessee Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Tennessee is 41,217 square miles. There are on average 138.0 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 5,689,283 people living in the state within 2,232,905 households (averaging 2.48 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 6,296,254 with an estimated 10.7% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Tennessee was $19,393. By 2007 the income was $33,395. The average income in each household was $43,610 in 2008. The percentage of Tennessee residents living in poverty in 2008 was 15.5%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $205,350 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $42,998 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 2,780,911 housing units within the state of Tennessee, a change of 341,466 from 2000 (or about 14.0%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 69.9%. The median value of each house was about $93,000 in the state in 2000. 15,005 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $2,078,953 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Tennessee births in the year 2006 was 84,355 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 56,838. Infant deaths that year numbered 733.

In 2007, Tennessee jobs totaled 3,746,010 across all industries. This was a change of 249,564 jobs from 2000. The number of Tennessee jobs in government in 2007 was 448,751. Workers traveled an average of 24.5 minutes to work each day.

There were 454,366 businesses in Tennessee in 2002. These include 26.0% of businesses listed as owned by women, 5.9% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.9% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 1.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.8% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Tennessee devoted to farming was 10,969,798 acres in 2007.

In 2000 4.8% 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 2.8%.

The percentage of adults in Tennessee over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 75.9%. About 19.6% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Tennessee with a disability is 1,149,693.

There were 3,020,016 civilians working in Tennessee in 2009. The number unemployed was 317,026 (or 10.5% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $8,024,900 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 425,565 residents less than five years old, (6.8% of residents), 1,493,252 less than eighteen years old (23.7% of residents), and 840,953 of the population of Tennessee was over the age of sixty-five (13.4% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.3%. The population classified as white was 5,048,678 (80.2%), black: 1,060,260 (16.8%), Asian: 87,769 (1.4%), two or more races: 73,945 (1.2%), Hispanic or Latino: 261,793 (4.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Tennessee was $109293454 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $97,792,030 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $60,136,403 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $161072503 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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