Washington Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Washington Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Washington is 66,544 square miles. There are on average 88.6 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 5,894,121 people living in the state within 2,271,398 households (averaging 2.53 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 6,664,195 with an estimated 13.1% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Washington was $22,973. By 2007 the income was $41,203. The average income in each household was $58,081 in 2008. The percentage of Washington residents living in poverty in 2008 was 11.3%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $265,738 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $51,138 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 2,813,372 housing units within the state of Washington, a change of 362,287 from 2000 (or about 14.8%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 64.6%. The median value of each house was about $168,300 in the state in 2000. 17,011 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $3,185,825 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Washington births in the year 2006 was 86,876 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 46,120. Infant deaths that year numbered 407.

In 2007, Washington jobs totaled 3,948,743 across all industries. This was a change of 397,275 jobs from 2000. The number of Washington jobs in government in 2007 was 609,199. Workers traveled an average of 25.5 minutes to work each day.

There were 467,290 businesses in Washington in 2002. These include 29.4% of businesses listed as owned by women, 1.5% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.2% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 5.8% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.2% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Washington devoted to farming was 14,972,789 acres in 2007.

In 2000 14.0% 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 10.4%.

The percentage of adults in Washington over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 87.1%. About 27.7% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Washington with a disability is 981,007.

There were 3,528,707 civilians working in Washington in 2009. The number unemployed was 314,207 (or 8.9% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $8,642,681 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 450,617 residents less than five years old, (6.8% of residents), 1,569,592 less than eighteen years old (23.6% of residents), and 806,202 of the population of Washington was over the age of sixty-five (12.1% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.0%. The population classified as white was 5,584,302 (83.8%), black: 258,711 (3.9%), Asian: 463,995 (7.0%), two or more races: 206,681 (3.1%), Hispanic or Latino: 687,367 (10.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Washington was $79,313,884 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $84,634,499 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $65,262,333 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $201930674 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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