Isle of Wight County

Settled: 1619
County website: www.co.isle-of-wight.va.us

Overall growth rate: 40 percent from 1990 to 2005
Number of high school graduates: 442 (2008)
Homeless: 17 (2009)
DUI arrests: 130 (2005)

Population: 35,035 (2007 estimate)
White: 72 percent or 24,634
Black: 25 percent or 8,591
Native American: .2 percent or 63
Asian: .3 percent or 115
Hispanic: 1.5 percent or 520
Two or more races: 1.5 percent or 614

Median household income: $56,955
Average household size: 2.47 persons
High school graduate or higher: 83.9 percent
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 24 percent

Total square miles: 319
Registered voters: 25,500
Percent voting in 2008 presidential election: 79 percent

Information courtesy of the U.S. Census and The Planning Council of Norfolk.