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Please click here to view the year 2000 census
data for Macon County, Tennessee. This will open up as a spreadsheet on a separate
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The spreadsheet has three columns:
Subject (example: people over 85)
Number (example: 304 people)
Percent (example: 1.5 percent of the population)
The data is from the United States Census Bureau,
www.census.gov.
Below are some updated facts
for
Macon County as of 2003.
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People QuickFacts |
Macon County |
Tennessee |
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Population, 2003 estimate |
21,023 |
5,841,748 |
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Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003 |
3.1% |
2.7% |
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Population, 2000 |
20,386 |
5,689,283 |
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Population, percent change, 1990 to 2000 |
28.2% |
16.7% |
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Persons under 5 years old, percent, 2000 |
7.1% |
6.6% |
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Persons under 18 years old, percent, 2000 |
26.1% |
24.6% |
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Persons 65 years old and over, percent, 2000 |
12.7% |
12.4% |
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Female persons, percent, 2000 |
50.6% |
51.3% |
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White persons, percent, 2000 (a) |
97.9% |
80.2% |
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Black or African American persons, percent, 2000 (a) |
0.2% |
16.4% |
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American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2000 (a) |
0.4% |
0.3% |
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Asian persons, percent, 2000 (a) |
0.2% |
1.0% |
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Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2000 (a) |
0.1% |
Z |
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Persons reporting some other race, percent, 2000 (a) |
0.8% |
1.0% |
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Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2000 |
0.4% |
1.1% |
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Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2000 (b) |
1.7% |
2.2% |
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White persons, not of Hispanic/Latino origin, percent, 2000 |
97.0% |
79.2% |
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Living in same house in 1995 and 2000', pct age 5+, 2000 |
57.6% |
53.9% |
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Foreign born persons, percent, 2000 |
1.8% |
2.8% |
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Language other than English spoken at home, pct age 5+, 2000 |
3.0% |
4.8% |
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High school graduates, percent of persons age 25+, 2000 |
60.2% |
75.9% |
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Bachelor's degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 2000 |
5.6% |
19.6% |
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Persons with a disability, age 5+, 2000 |
5,122 |
1,149,693 |
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Mean travel time to work (minutes), workers age 16+, 2000 |
31.1 |
24.5 |
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Housing units, 2002 |
9,123 |
2,519,825 |
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Homeownership rate, 2000 |
78.6% |
69.9% |
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Housing units in multi-unit structures, percent, 2000 |
5.8% |
18.7% |
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Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2000 |
$67,700 |
$93,000 |
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Households, 2000 |
7,916 |
2,232,905 |
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Persons per household, 2000 |
2.55 |
2.48 |
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Median household income, 1999 |
$29,867 |
$36,360 |
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Per capita money income, 1999 |
$15,286 |
$19,393 |
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Persons below poverty, percent, 1999 |
15.1% |
13.5% |
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Business QuickFacts |
Macon County |
Tennessee |
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Private nonfarm establishments with paid employees, 2001 |
320 |
129,659 |
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Private nonfarm employment, 2001 |
3,795 |
2,378,510 |
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Private nonfarm employment, percent change 2000-2001 |
-6.9% |
-0.5% |
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Nonemployer establishments, 2000 |
1,455 |
339,361 |
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Manufacturers shipments, 1997 ($1000) |
80,147 |
98,503,080 |
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Retail sales, 1997 ($1000) |
89,283 |
50,813,221 |
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Retail sales per capita, 1997 |
$5,010 |
$9,448 |
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Minority-owned firms, percent of total, 1997 |
F |
7.8% |
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Women-owned firms, percent of total, 1997 |
12.8% |
24.0% |
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Housing units authorized by building permits, 2002 |
24 |
34,273 |
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Federal funds and grants, 2002 ($1000) |
97,771 |
39,275,543 |
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Geography QuickFacts |
Macon County |
Tennessee |
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Land area, 2000 (square miles) |
307 |
41,217 |
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Persons per square mile, 2000 |
66.4 |
138.0 |
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Metropolitan Area |
None |
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FIPS Code |
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