Wisconsin Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Wisconsin Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Wisconsin is 54,310 square miles. There are on average 98.8 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 5,363,675 people living in the state within 2,084,544 households (averaging 2.50 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 5,654,774 with an estimated 5.4% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Wisconsin was $21,271. By 2007 the income was $36,272. The average income in each household was $52,103 in 2008. The percentage of Wisconsin residents living in poverty in 2008 was 10.5%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $203,084 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $41,851 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 2,575,194 housing units within the state of Wisconsin, a change of 254,041 from 2000 (or about 10.9%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 68.4%. The median value of each house was about $112,200 in the state in 2000. 10,780 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $1,752,532 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Wisconsin births in the year 2006 was 72,340 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 46,153. Infant deaths that year numbered 462.

In 2007, Wisconsin jobs totaled 3,595,084 across all industries. This was a change of 163,812 jobs from 2000. The number of Wisconsin jobs in government in 2007 was 425,772. Workers traveled an average of 20.8 minutes to work each day.

There were 393,241 businesses in Wisconsin in 2002. These include 26.5% of businesses listed as owned by women, 1.7% of businesses owned by blacks, 1.0% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 1.3% of businesses owned by Asians, and 0.6% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Wisconsin devoted to farming was 15,190,804 acres in 2007.

In 2000 7.3% 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 3.6%.

The percentage of adults in Wisconsin over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 85.1%. About 22.4% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Wisconsin with a disability is 790,917.

There were 3,081,476 civilians working in Wisconsin in 2009. The number unemployed was 261,785 (or 8.5% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $6,885,765 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 364,068 residents less than five years old, (6.4% of residents), 1,310,250 less than eighteen years old (23.2% of residents), and 761,279 of the population of Wisconsin was over the age of sixty-five (13.5% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.3%. The population classified as white was 5,056,461 (89.4%), black: 347,797 (6.2%), Asian: 121,716 (2.2%), two or more races: 69,124 (1.2%), Hispanic or Latino: 299,123 (5.3%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Wisconsin was $124664004 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $68,510,712 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $59,978,700 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $150459333 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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