The population of Columbia county is estimated at 69,274. In 2017 there were 807 births and 809 deaths in Columbia county. Columbia county has 10,871 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 7,342 that are owned free and clear and 6,728 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Columbia County filed 27,420 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.3% of all Florida filings and 0.018% of the entire nation. Columbia had a combined total federal tax liability of $182,472,000 on earned income of $1,229,948,000. Other notable statistics from Columbia County were 320 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,024,000 and 3,280 charitable contributions valued at $20,582,000. 3,430 filings from Columbia County paid a combined total of $9,364,000 in property taxes and 2,790 filings paid $19,003,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Columbia county had 120 religious congregations with an estimated 27,171 members.
16.4% of the Columbia population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 41% of Columbia County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,533 votes.
At $42,097 the median income is 80.1% of the Florida average. An estimated 1,259 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Columbia, the equivalant of around 4.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Columbia County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
4,387	Health care and social assistance
2,791	Retail trade
2,331	Accommodation and food services
1,956	Food services and drinking places
1,926	Restaurants and other eating places
1,924	Hospitals
1,924	General medical and surgical hospitals
1,371	Ambulatory health care services
1,291	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,221	Administrative and support services
1,070	Full-service restaurants
850	Transportation and warehousing
760	Wholesale trade
743	Limited-service restaurants
639	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.65% in Columbia County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 32024, 32025 and 32055).

In 2018 11.66% of listings in Columbia County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 32055, 32025, 32024 and 32038) dropped their price.

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