Population

• New York State contains 47,213.79 square miles of territory and is home to an estimated 19,541,453 people, or 414 persons per square mile. Its percentage of population growth from 2000 to 2009 is 3 percent. The state also contains 8,017,881 housing units, with its population equally divided between homeowners and renters in multiple-family dwellings.
  
  

Economics

• New York State is home to 518,632 employing businesses, generating 7,617,164 jobs as of 2008. The median household income is $55,980, with 13.7 percent of the population living below the poverty line. The state also claims $147.3 billion in manufacturers' shipments, $343.6 billion in wholesale trade and $178 billion in retail sales in 2002.
  
  

Gross Domestic Product

• The total gross domestic product for the state, or the market value of all goods and services produced by New York annually, was $1.09 trillion in 2009. Of this, $970 billion were generated from private industries, which included $54 billion in retail trade, $171 billion from the insurance industry, $156 billion from real estate and $122 billion from government-backed operations.
  
  

New York City

• The state's most famous destination is New York City, which boasts 722 miles of subway track and a population of 8,214,426. The city plays host to 40,000 television location shoots annually, as well as 100 daily media productions, over 250 feature length films and more than 100 television shows annually, resulting in 27,251 shooting days during 2008 alone. Its three airports served 107 million passengers in 2008, and its 6,400 subway cars transported 1.58 billion people in 2009.