The population of Mesa county is estimated at 149,794. In 2017 there were 1,762 births and 1,451 deaths in Mesa county. Mesa county has 29,788 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 11,718 that are owned free and clear and 16,589 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Mesa County filed 68,820 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.6% of all Colorado filings and 0.046% of the entire nation. Mesa had a combined total federal tax liability of $546,823,000 on earned income of $3,799,558,000. Other notable statistics from Mesa County were 3,820 unemployment claims which collected a total of $19,800,000 and 14,030 charitable contributions valued at $66,891,000. 17,360 filings from Mesa County paid a combined total of $27,880,000 in property taxes and 15,700 filings paid $135,627,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Mesa county had 148 religious congregations with an estimated 50,728 members.
27.2% of the Mesa population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 50% of Mesa County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 5,843 votes.
At $52,623 the median income is 76.1% of the Colorado average. An estimated 2,940 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Mesa, the equivalant of around 4.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Mesa County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
10,176	Health care and social assistance
7,966	Retail trade
6,052	Accommodation and food services
5,076	Food services and drinking places
4,734	Restaurants and other eating places
3,554	Hospitals
2,974	Ambulatory health care services
2,644	Full-service restaurants
2,529	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,388	Manufacturing
2,333	Transportation and warehousing
2,210	Nursing and residential care facilities
2,076	Wholesale trade
1,883	Other services (except public administration)
1,791	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.45% in Mesa County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 81501, 81506, 81503, 81505 and 81507).

In 2018 16.73% of listings in Mesa County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 81503, 81520, 81504, 81501 and 81507) dropped their price.

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