Profile Quiz - State - Answers
1 How many counties are there?
H or L?
GA
Avg US State
H or L?
Avg GA Co.
US
H
159
HIGHER or LOWER than avg US State?
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
63
3,141
How many counties are metropolitan?
Is GA HIGHER or LOWER than avg US State?
H
70
22
What is the total population? (2007 est.)
HIGHER or LOWER than avg US state?
H
Percentage change in population? (2000-2007)
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg US state?
Than US?
H
16.6%
6.9%
H
9.9%
7.2%
What % of the population is under age 18? (2007 est.)
HIGHER or LOWER than US?
H
25.5%
24.5%
What % of families are headed by single parents?
HIGHER or LOWER than US?
H
17.6%
15.4%
4.1%
N/A
4.9%
N/A
1,092
9,544,750
6,020,657
301,621,157
What is the public school dropout rate? (2006-07 sch yr)
What % of adult pop. did NOT complete high school?
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg US State?
Than US?
H
21.4%
18.0%
H
29.3%
19.6%
What % of adult population had a bachelor’s degree or higher?
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg US State?
Than US?
H
24.3%
23.8%
L
14.0%
24.4%
L
7.8%
9.6%
L
4.8%
15.1%
L
$32,095
$35,329
L
$25,483
$36,714
H
14.3%
12.9%
H
18.6%
13.3%
H
1,271,409
762,754
10 What % of the population is Hispanic? (2007 est.)
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg US State?
Than US?
11 What is the per capita income? (2006)
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg US State?
Than US?
12 What % of pop. lives below the poverty level? (2005 est.)
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg US State?
Than US?
How many people does that represent?
38,231,474
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg US state?
13 What is the average annual unemployment rate? (2007)
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg US State?
Than US?
H
4.4
4.3
H
4.9
4.6
14 Farm Gate Value of all AG commodities produced in 2007?
$11.6 billion
$72.7 million
15 What are the USDA total farm cash receipts? (2007)
H
$6.8 billion
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg US State?
16 What is the total number of farms? (2002)
$5.7 billion
$284.8 billion
H
49,311
HIGHER or LOWER than Avg US State?
10/08 Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
42,580
2,128,982