West Virginia Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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West Virginia Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in West Virginia is 24,077 square miles. There are on average 75.1 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 1,808,344 people living in the state within 736,481 households (averaging 2.40 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 1,819,777 with an estimated 0.6% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for West Virginia was $16,477. By 2007 the income was $29,385. The average income in each household was $37,528 in 2008. The percentage of West Virginia residents living in poverty in 2008 was 17.4%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $53,181 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $39,351 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 893,813 housing units within the state of West Virginia, a change of 49,190 from 2000 (or about 5.8%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 75.2%. The median value of each house was about $72,800 in the state in 2000. 2,235 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $310,031 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of West Virginia births in the year 2006 was 20,931 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 20,672. Infant deaths that year numbered 155.

In 2007, West Virginia jobs totaled 921,898 across all industries. This was a change of 35,278 jobs from 2000. The number of West Virginia jobs in government in 2007 was 152,533. Workers traveled an average of 26.2 minutes to work each day.

There were 113,087 businesses in West Virginia in 2002. These include 27.7% of businesses listed as owned by women, 1.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.6% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 1.1% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.4% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in West Virginia devoted to farming was 3,697,606 acres in 2007.

In 2000 2.7% 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 1.1%.

The percentage of adults in West Virginia over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 75.2%. About 14.8% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in West Virginia with a disability is 410,781.

There were 797,943 civilians working in West Virginia in 2009. The number unemployed was 63,374 (or 7.9% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,974,851 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 105,976 residents less than five years old, (5.8% of residents), 386,449 less than eighteen years old (21.2% of residents), and 287,557 of the population of West Virginia was over the age of sixty-five (15.8% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 51.0%. The population classified as white was 1,718,074 (94.4%), black: 66,433 (3.7%), Asian: 12,201 (0.7%), two or more races: 18,247 (1.0%), Hispanic or Latino: 22,662 (1.2%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in West Virginia was $18,911,332 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $10,924,279 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $16,747,900 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $36,277,776 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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