Virginia Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Virginia Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Virginia is 39,594 square miles. There are on average 178.8 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 7,078,515 people living in the state within 2,699,173 households (averaging 2.54 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 7,882,590 with an estimated 11.4% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Virginia was $23,975. By 2007 the income was $41,727. The average income in each household was $61,210 in 2008. The percentage of Virginia residents living in poverty in 2008 was 10.2%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $321,245 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $51,108 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 3,330,461 housing units within the state of Virginia, a change of 426,020 from 2000 (or about 14.7%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 68.1%. The median value of each house was about $125,400 in the state in 2000. 21,452 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $3,172,837 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Virginia births in the year 2006 was 107,817 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 57,690. Infant deaths that year numbered 765.

In 2007, Virginia jobs totaled 4,936,137 across all industries. This was a change of 528,813 jobs from 2000. The number of Virginia jobs in government in 2007 was 865,871. Workers traveled an average of 27.0 minutes to work each day.

There were 529,520 businesses in Virginia in 2002. These include 29.7% of businesses listed as owned by women, 7.8% of businesses owned by blacks, 3.6% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 5.8% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.5% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Virginia devoted to farming was 8,103,925 acres in 2007.

In 2000 11.1% 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 8.1%.

The percentage of adults in Virginia over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 81.5%. About 29.5% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Virginia with a disability is 1,155,083.

There were 4,173,723 civilians working in Virginia in 2009. The number unemployed was 277,562 (or 6.7% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $10,929,429 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 533,143 residents less than five years old, (6.8% of residents), 1,847,182 less than eighteen years old (23.4% of residents), and 960,090 of the population of Virginia was over the age of sixty-five (12.2% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.8%. The population classified as white was 5,735,104 (72.8%), black: 1,573,645 (20.0%), Asian: 397,476 (5.0%), two or more races: 139,618 (1.8%), Hispanic or Latino: 569,921 (7.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Virginia was $83,952,547 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $69,267,796 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $80,509,062 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $252275298 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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