Texas, California and Florida accounted for more than 20 percent of the nation’s 116,855 gas stations with paid employees in 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s about one gas station per 2,500 people.
Gas stations employed more than 910,000 people, with a total annual payroll of $15 billion. At the county level, Los Angeles (1,723); Harris (Houston), Texas (1,397); and Cook (Chicago), Illinois (1,090) had the highest number of gas stations.

America’s Hispanic population increased to reach 45.5 million or 15.1 percent of the total U.S. population. With a 3.3 percent annual increase, Hispanics were the fastest-growing minority group. Asians were the second fastest-growing minority group, with a 2.9 percent population increase during the period. The white population grew by 0.3 percent during the one-year period.

39.8 million Americans moved house in 2006. Nearly one-third of all people living in renter-occupied housing units lived elsewhere a year earlier. The moving rate for people living in owner-occupied housing units was considerably lower, at 7 percent. Nearly half of the reasons given for moving were housing related, such as wanting a bigger or smaller house.

Nearly one in every 10 of America’s 3,141 counties has a population that is more than 50 percent minority. Los Angeles County, California had the largest minority population in 2006. At 7 million, or 71 percent of its population, Los Angeles County is home to one in every 14 of the nation’s minority residents.