The population of Alachua county is estimated at 264,341. In 2017 there were 2,893 births and 2,011 deaths in Alachua county. Alachua county has 36,787 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 17,981 that are owned free and clear and 45,748 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Alachua County filed 111,550 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.2% of all Florida filings and 0.075% of the entire nation. Alachua had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,095,900,000 on earned income of $6,569,050,000. Other notable statistics from Alachua County were 910 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,922,000 and 17,950 charitable contributions valued at $122,834,000. 18,650 filings from Alachua County paid a combined total of $80,100,000 in property taxes and 15,310 filings paid $121,200,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Alachua county had 302 religious congregations with an estimated 102,841 members.
41.4% of the Alachua population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 48% of Alachua County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 7,509 votes.
At $45,230 the median income is 86.0% of the Florida average. An estimated 5,033 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Alachua, the equivalant of around 3.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Alachua County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
21,940	Health care and social assistance
13,067	Retail trade
11,350	General medical and surgical hospitals
9,476	Restaurants and other eating places
5,636	Ambulatory health care services
5,242	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
5,141	Administrative and support services
4,648	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,050	Finance and insurance
3,309	Food and beverage stores
3,166	Manufacturing
3,097	Grocery stores
3,022	Services to buildings and dwellings
2,650	Other services (except public administration)
2,004	Information

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.57% in Alachua County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 32615, 32608, 32606, 32605 and 32643).

In 2018 14.28% of listings in Alachua County (averaging across 10 zip codes a sample of which are; 32601, 32609, 32653, 32669 and 32607) dropped their price.

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