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Virginia Population, Income, Education, Employment, and Federal Funds
Virginia Population |
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Total |
Year |
1980 |
5,346,797 |
1990 |
6,187,358 |
2000 |
7,078,515 |
2009 (latest estimates) |
7,882,590 |
Virginia Income |
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Total |
Virginia Per-capita income (2008 dollars) |
2007 |
43,158 |
2008 |
44,075 |
Percent change |
-1.7 |
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Virginia Earnings per job (2008 dollars) |
2007 |
54,918 |
2008 |
53,585 |
Percent change |
-2.4 |
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Virginia Poverty rate (percent) |
1979 |
11.8 |
1989 |
10.2 |
1999 |
9.6 |
2008 (latest model-based estimates) |
10.2 |
Virginia Education (Persons 25 and older) |
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Total |
Virginia Percent not completing high school |
1980 |
37.6 |
1990 |
24.8 |
2000 |
18.5 |
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Virginia Percent completing high school only |
1980 |
28.4 |
1990 |
26.6 |
2000 |
26.0 |
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Virginia Percent completing some college |
1980 |
14.9 |
1990 |
24.0 |
2000 |
26.0 |
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Virginia Percent completing college |
1980 |
19.1 |
1990 |
24.5 |
2000 |
29.5 |
Virginia Employment |
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Total |
Virginia Total number of jobs |
2007 |
4,865,718 |
2008 |
4,916,428 |
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Virginia Percent employment change |
2006-2007 |
1.6 |
2007-2008 |
0.6 |
2008-2009 |
-1.8 |
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Virginia Unemployment rate (percent) |
2008 |
3.9 |
2009 |
6.7 |
Virginia Federal Funds, FY 2008 |
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Total |
Virginia Federal funding, dollars per person |
Virginia All Federal funds |
15,084 |
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Virginia Federal funding by purpose |
Virginia Agriculture and natural resources |
43 |
Virginia Community resources |
1,627 |
Virginia Defense and space |
5,586 |
Virginia Human resources |
122 |
Virginia Income security |
4,634 |
Virginia National functions |
3,071 |
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Virginia Federal funding by type of payments |
Virginia Grants |
871 |
Virginia Direct loans |
249 |
Virginia Guaranteed/insured loans |
1,368 |
Virginia Retirement/disability payments |
3,137 |
Virginia Other direct payments to
individuals |
1,101 |
Virginia Direct payments, not to
individuals |
57 |
Virginia Procurement contracts |
6,910 |
Virginia Salaries and wages |
1,391 |
Virginia Organic Agriculture
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2008 |
Virginia Number of certified operations |
120 |
Virginia Crops (acres) |
13,353 |
Virginia Pasture & rangeland (acres) |
1,966 |
Virginia Total acres |
15,318 |
Virginia Farm Characteristics
Virginia 2007 Census of Agriculture |
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2007 |
Virginia Approximate total land area (acres) |
25,275,225 |
Virginia Total farmland (acres) |
8,103,925 |
Percent of total land area |
32.1 |
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Virginia Cropland (acres) |
3,274,137 |
Percent of total farmland |
40.4 |
Percent in pasture |
14.9 |
Percent irrigated |
2.4 |
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Virginia Harvested Cropland (acres) |
2,544,997 |
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Virginia Woodland (acres) |
2,319,491 |
Percent of total farmland |
28.6 |
Percent in pasture |
21.2 |
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Virginia Pastureland (acres) |
2,150,933 |
Percent of total farmland |
26.5 |
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Virginia Land in house lots, ponds,
roads, wasteland, etc. (acres) |
359,364 |
Percent of total farmland |
4.4 |
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Virginia Conservation practices |
Farmland in conservation or
wetlands reserve programs
(acres) |
70,112 |
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Virginia Average farm size (acres) |
171 |
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Virginia Farms by size (percent) |
1 to 99 acres |
59.8 |
100 to 499 acres |
33.2 |
500 to 999 acres |
4.2 |
1000 to 1,999 acres |
2.0 |
2,000 or more acres |
0.8 |
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Virginia Farms by sales (percent) |
Less than $9,999 |
67.1 |
$10,000 to $49,999 |
21.1 |
$50,000 to $99,999 |
4.0 |
$100,000 to $499,999 |
5.0 |
More than $500,000 |
2.9 |
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Virginia Tenure of farmers |
Virginia Full owner (farms) |
32,143 |
Percent of total |
67.8 |
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Virginia Part owner (farms) |
12,799 |
Percent of total |
27.0 |
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Virginia Tenant owner (farms) |
2,441 |
Percent of total |
5.2 |
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Virginia Farm organization |
Virginia Individuals/family, sole
proprietorship (farms) |
41,173 |
Percent of total |
86.9 |
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Virginia Family-held corporations
(farms) |
2,027 |
Percent of total |
4.3 |
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Virginia Partnerships (farms) |
3,625 |
Percent of total |
7.7 |
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Virginia Non-family corporations (farms) |
242 |
Percent of total |
0.5 |
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Virginia Others - cooperative, estate or
trust, institutional, etc. (farms) |
316 |
Percent of total |
0.7 |
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Virginia - Characteristics of principal farm operators |
Average operator age (years) |
58.2 |
Percent with farming as their
primary occupation |
42.8 |
Men |
39,537 |
Women |
7,846 |
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Virginia Farm Financial Indicators
Virginia Farm income and value added data |
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2008 |
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Virginia Number of farms |
47,000 |
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Thousands $ |
Final crop output |
1,128,163 |
+ Final animal output |
1,881,209 |
+ Services and forestry |
872,050 |
= Final agricultural sector output |
3,881,422 |
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- Intermediate consumption outlays |
2,226,136 |
+ Net government transactions |
-45,919 |
= Gross value added |
1,609,366 |
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- Capital consumption |
641,095 |
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= Net value added |
968,271 |
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- Factor payments |
418,104 |
Employee compensation (total hired labor) |
300,045 |
Net rent received by nonoperator landlords |
-59,717 |
Real estate and nonreal estate interest |
177,776 |
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= Net farm income |
550,167 |
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Virginia Top Commodities, Exports, and Counties
VA. Top 5 agriculture commodities, 2009 |
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Value of receipts
thousand $ |
1. Broilers |
550,228 |
2. Cattle and calves |
287,517 |
3. Dairy products |
264,384 |
4. Greenhouse/nursery |
261,400 |
5. Turkeys |
215,424 |
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All commodities |
2,641,506 |
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VA. Top 5 agriculture exports, estimates, FY 2009 |
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Value
million $ |
1. Wheat and products |
125.4 |
2. Soybeans and products |
111.2 |
3. Live animals and meat |
108.3 |
4. Other |
106.0 |
5. Tobacco unmfd. |
67.4 |
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Overall rank |
717.6 |
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VA. Top 5 counties in agricultural sales 2007 |
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Thousands $ |
1. Rockingham County |
534,142 |
2. Augusta County |
194,814 |
3. Accomack County |
153,040 |
4. Page County |
148,344 |
5. Shenandoah County |
101,576 |
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State total |
2,906,188 |
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Virginia may add to fees on alcohol
VIRGINIA - Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R), scrambling to make ends meet in his plan to privatize Virginia's 332 state-run liquor stores, is considering adding a fee on alcoholic drinks sold in restaurants and bars to help make up the $250 million in annual taxes and profits that state stores currently generate, according to Richmond sources familiar with the still-evolving plan.
Under the version of the proposal discussed with industry officials Friday, the drinks surcharge, which would be imposed either as a tax on customers or on restaurants' liquor receipts, would be part of a package of new fees including a per-gallon charge to wholesalers.
Democrats and restaurateurs immediately pounced on the proposal as a tax "on people drinking alcohol," as Senate Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw (Fairfax) put it.
McDonnell pledged in his 2009 campaign to turn over the Virginia's retail liquor business to private operators as a way to produce a windfall of as much as $500 million to fix roads. And the governor has said that his plan would achieve privatization without depriving Virginia of the nearly $250 million in profit that state-run stores generate.
A Washington Post survey of other states that have reduced the government's role in alcohol sales and distribution indicates that state revenues have often fallen short of politicians' projections. In Iowa in the late 1980s, for example, as a financial crisis brought about the collapse of dozens of farms and banks, officials frantically searching for new revenue shuttered the state's 207 liquor stores and allowed private companies to buy liquor licenses.
The result was not quite what politicians had promised. Private stores opened in new places and kept longer hours, but prices increased by 8 percent so retailers could take a profit, and selection narrowed as the state's free-standing stores were replaced by grocery or convenience stores that often limited their stock to bestselling brands. In 1987, the first year of privatization, the state took in about half of the bounty it had anticipated, according to interviews and news reports.
McDonnell would not comment Friday on the latest reports about his privatization plan, but earlier he said that it will fare better than other states' because they did not privatize correctly, failing to learn lessons from the 32 states that have had privately run liquor sales since Prohibition ended.
"We think they didn't do it right,'' he said. "We think the competition that will be generated for licenses will be significant. . . . Thirty-two states do it. They think the free market works."
McDonnell is considering auctioning up to 1,000 licenses to the highest bidders. The proposal, which would privatize alcohol sales from wholesale to distribution to retail, would allow Virginians to buy liquor at private liquor stores, grocery and convenience stores, and big-box stores such as Wal-Mart and Costco. McDonnell expects Virginia will collect a one-time windfall from a variety of sources after privatization: $34 million from selling off properties such as a state liquor warehouse in Richmond, $160 million from wholesale license fees and several hundred million from auctioning off retail licenses, according to the sources.
The governor has cited research concluding that giving up state control of liquor sales would have no impact on drunken driving or other alcohol-related problems, but several other studies have found an increase in consumption in states where private operators take over from a state monopoly.
McDonnell's government reform commission will get his full proposal Wednesday, after which the governor expects to call legislators back to Richmond for a special session on privatization and other cost-cutting ideas.
As word of the latest proposal reached bars around the state, reaction was critical. Kenny Mitchell, who has managed Murphy's Grand Irish Pub in Old Town Alexandria for nine years, said he welcomes a privatized system if it brings cheaper prices and makes it easier to buy liquor. But not if it brings new taxes.
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Virginia may add to fees on alcohol
VIRGINIA - Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R), scrambling to make ends meet in his plan to privatize Virginia's 332 state-run liquor stores, is considering adding a fee on alcoholic drinks sold in restauran
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