The population of Bay county is estimated at 182,992. In 2017 there were 2,350 births and 1,933 deaths in Bay county. Bay county has 27,480 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 15,727 that are owned free and clear and 25,231 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Bay County filed 86,950 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.9% of all Florida filings and 0.058% of the entire nation. Bay had a combined total federal tax liability of $708,001,000 on earned income of $4,529,542,000. Other notable statistics from Bay County were 1,450 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,850,000 and 11,880 charitable contributions valued at $81,683,000. 12,790 filings from Bay County paid a combined total of $39,705,000 in property taxes and 10,880 filings paid $91,933,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Bay county had 205 religious congregations with an estimated 69,639 members.
22.4% of the Bay population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 48% of Bay County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 7,317 votes.
At $51,633 the median income is 98.2% of the Florida average. An estimated 3,639 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Bay, the equivalant of around 4.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Bay County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
10,295	Retail trade
9,994	Accommodation and food services
9,575	Health care and social assistance
8,256	Food services and drinking places
7,669	Restaurants and other eating places
4,752	Full-service restaurants
3,840	Manufacturing
3,623	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,461	Administrative and support services
3,335	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,087	Hospitals
1,963	Finance and insurance
1,957	Offices of physicians
1,930	Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists)
1,892	Other services (except public administration)

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.30% in Bay County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 32444, 32408, 32413, 32407 and 32404).

In 2018 6.74% of listings in Bay County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 32405, 32408, 32444, 32401 and 32404) dropped their price.

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