Grant County Profile
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People QuickFacts Grant County Kentucky
Population, 2005 estimate 24,610 4,173,405
Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 9.9% 3.2%
Population, 2000 22,384 4,041,769
Population, percent change, 1990 to 2000 42.2% 9.6%
Persons under 5 years old, percent, 2004 7.5% 6.4%
Persons under 18 years old, percent, 2004 27.3% 23.6%
Persons 65 years old and over, percent, 2004 9.2% 12.5%
Female persons, percent, 2004 50.5% 50.9%
White persons, percent, 2004 (a) 98.5% 90.4%
Black persons, percent, 2004 (a) 0.3% 7.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2004 (a) 0.2% 0.2%
Asian persons, percent, 2004 (a) 0.4% 0.9%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2004 (a) 0.1% 0.0%
Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2004 0.4% 1.0%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2004 (b) 1.1% 1.9%
White persons, not Hispanic, percent, 2004 97.5% 88.7%
Living in same house in 1995 and 2000, pct age 5+, 2000 51.4% 55.9%
Foreign born persons, percent, 2000 1.0% 2.0%
Language other than English spoken at home, pct age 5+, 2000 2.5% 3.9%
High school graduates, percent of persons age 25+, 2000 72.4% 74.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 2000 9.4% 17.1%
Persons with a disability, age 5+, 2000 4,731 874,156
Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16+, 2000 31.5 23.5
Housing units, 2004 10,082 1,842,971
Homeownership rate, 2000 74.2% 70.8%
Housing units in multi-unit structures, percent, 2000 13.6% 17.7%
Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2000 $93,100 $86,700
Households, 2000 8,175 1,590,647
Persons per household, 2000 2.72 2.47
Per capita money income, 1999 $16,776 $18,093
Median household income, 2003 $41,176 $36,663
Persons below poverty, percent, 2003 12.5% 14.9%
     
Business QuickFacts Grant County Kentucky
Private nonfarm establishments, 2003 418 90,651
Private nonfarm employment, 2003 4,613 1,471,878
Private nonfarm employment, percent change 2000-2003 -4.4% -2.8%
Nonemployer establishments, 2003 1,454 248,394
Manufacturers shipments, 2002 ($1000) D 88,513,497
Retail sales, 2002 ($1000) 231,936 40,062,561
Retail sales per capita, 2002 $9,835 $9,795
Minority-owned firms, percent of total, 1997 13.0% 4.5%
Women-owned firms, percent of total, 1997 20.9% 23.4%
Housing units authorized by building permits, 2004 154 22,623
Federal spending, 2004 ($1000) 97,435 31,713,543
     
Geography QuickFacts Grant County Kentucky
Land area, 2000 (square miles) 260 39,728
Persons per square mile, 2000 86.1 101.7
FIPS Code 81 21
Metropolitan or Micropolitan Statistical Area    
     
     
Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metro Area    
     
(a) Includes persons reporting only one race.    
(b) Hispanics may be of any race, so also are included in applicable race categories.
FN: Footnote on this item for this area in place of data    
NA: Not available    
D: Suppressed to avoid disclosure of confidential information    
X: Not applicable    
S: Suppressed; does not meet publication standards    
Z: Value greater than zero but less than half unit of measure shown    
F: Fewer than 100 firms    
Source: US Census Bureau State & County QuickFacts    
 

 

 

 

 



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