Wyoming Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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Wyoming Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in Wyoming is 97,100 square miles. There are on average 5.1 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 493,782 people living in the state within 193,608 households (averaging 2.48 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 544,270 with an estimated 10.2% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for Wyoming was $19,134. By 2007 the income was $47,047. The average income in each household was $54,735 in 2008. The percentage of Wyoming residents living in poverty in 2008 was 9.5%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $24,618 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $42,506 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 249,306 housing units within the state of Wyoming, a change of 25,452 from 2000 (or about 11.4%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 70.0%. The median value of each house was about $96,600 in the state in 2000. 2,294 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $406,736 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of Wyoming births in the year 2006 was 7,672 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 4,311. Infant deaths that year numbered 54.

In 2007, Wyoming jobs totaled 389,776 across all industries. This was a change of 61,740 jobs from 2000. The number of Wyoming jobs in government in 2007 was 69,875. Workers traveled an average of 17.8 minutes to work each day.

There were 53,103 businesses in Wyoming in 2002. These include 24.4% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.3% of businesses owned by blacks, 2.5% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 0.8% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.1% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in Wyoming devoted to farming was 30,169,526 acres in 2007.

In 2000 6.4% 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 2.3%.

The percentage of adults in Wyoming over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 87.9%. About 21.9% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in Wyoming with a disability is 77,143.

There were 293,927 civilians working in Wyoming in 2009. The number unemployed was 18,710 (or 6.4% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $984,684 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 40,341 residents less than five years old, (7.4% of residents), 132,025 less than eighteen years old (24.3% of residents), and 66,867 of the population of Wyoming was over the age of sixty-five (12.3% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 49.1%. The population classified as white was 509,018 (93.5%), black: 7,638 (1.4%), Asian: 4,554 (0.8%), two or more races: 8,427 (1.5%), Hispanic or Latino: 43,977 (8.1%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in Wyoming was $4,061,516 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $3,331,043 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $5,783,756 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $16,567,911 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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