Vermont Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Vermont Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Vermont is 9,249 square miles. There are on average 65.8 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 608,827 people living in the state within 240,634 households (averaging 2.44 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 621,760 with an estimated 2.1% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Vermont was $20,625. By 2007 the income was $37,483. The average income in each household was $52,111 in 2008. The percentage of Vermont residents living in poverty in 2008 was 10.4%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $23,267 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $38,465 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 314,246 housing units within the state of Vermont, a change of 19,867 from 2000 (or about 6.7%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 70.6%. The median value of each house was about $111,500 in the state in 2000. 1,367 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $213,951 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Vermont births in the year 2006 was 6,511 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 5,048. Infant deaths that year numbered 36.

In 2007, Vermont jobs totaled 427,422 across all industries. This was a change of 22,959 jobs from 2000. The number of Vermont jobs in government in 2007 was 56,264. Workers traveled an average of 21.6 minutes to work each day.

There were 72,321 businesses in Vermont in 2002. These include 26.3% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.6% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 0.6% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Vermont devoted to farming was 1,233,313 acres in 2007.

In 2000 5.9% 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 3.8%.

The percentage of adults in Vermont over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 86.4%. About 29.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Vermont with a disability is 97,167.

There were 359,759 civilians working in Vermont in 2009. The number unemployed was 24,817 (or 6.9% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,154,048 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 32,474 residents less than five years old, (5.2% of residents), 126,275 less than eighteen years old (20.3% of residents), and 89,911 of the population of Vermont was over the age of sixty-five (14.5% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.8%. The population classified as white was 598,423 (96.2%), black: 5,917 (1.0%), Asian: 7,298 (1.2%), two or more races: 7,448 (1.2%), Hispanic or Latino: 9,184 (1.5%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Vermont was $9,660,529 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $5,094,373 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $7,623,872 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $16,440,905 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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