The population of Santa Cruz county is estimated at 46,075. In 2017 there were 628 births and 324 deaths in Santa Cruz county. Santa Cruz county has 7,503 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,925 that are owned free and clear and 5,009 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Santa Cruz County filed 20,320 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.7% of all Arizona filings and 0.014% of the entire nation. Santa Cruz had a combined total federal tax liability of $139,398,000 on earned income of $868,845,000. Other notable statistics from Santa Cruz County were 1,140 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,596,000 and 2,550 charitable contributions valued at $9,368,000. 2,740 filings from Santa Cruz County paid a combined total of $7,918,000 in property taxes and 2,320 filings paid $18,265,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Santa Cruz county had 43 religious congregations with an estimated 18,651 members.
22.1% of the Santa Cruz population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 24.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 32% of Santa Cruz County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,032 votes.
At $39,265 the median income is 69.5% of the Arizona average. An estimated 1,807 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Santa Cruz, the equivalant of around 9.5% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 10.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Santa Cruz County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,344	Retail trade
1,530	Transportation and warehousing
1,413	Accommodation and food services
1,135	Health care and social assistance
1,048	Food services and drinking places
999	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
943	Grocery and related product merchant wholesalers
857	Restaurants and other eating places
844	Fresh fruit and vegetable merchant wholesalers
756	General merchandise stores
485	Freight transportation arrangement
481	Clothing and clothing accessories stores
392	Limited-service restaurants
378	Clothing stores
365	Accommodation

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