The population of Hernando county is estimated at 182,231. In 2017 there were 1,640 births and 2,761 deaths in Hernando county. Hernando county has 34,836 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 22,938 that are owned free and clear and 13,971 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Hernando County filed 80,870 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.8% of all Florida filings and 0.054% of the entire nation. Hernando had a combined total federal tax liability of $502,197,000 on earned income of $3,577,215,000. Other notable statistics from Hernando County were 1,230 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,380,000 and 9,730 charitable contributions valued at $40,806,000. 10,630 filings from Hernando County paid a combined total of $30,768,000 in property taxes and 8,840 filings paid $62,541,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Hernando county had 120 religious congregations with an estimated 47,057 members.
17.1% of the Hernando population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 52% of Hernando County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 10,285 votes.
At $44,710 the median income is 85.0% of the Florida average. An estimated 3,557 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Hernando, the equivalant of around 5.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Hernando County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
7,744	Health care and social assistance
6,620	Retail trade
3,936	Accommodation and food services
3,747	Food services and drinking places
3,560	Restaurants and other eating places
2,914	Ambulatory health care services
2,005	General merchandise stores
1,881	Full-service restaurants
1,494	Food and beverage stores
1,490	Manufacturing
1,445	Grocery stores
1,417	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
1,387	Limited-service restaurants
1,288	Transportation and warehousing
1,263	Offices of physicians

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.41% in Hernando County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 34613, 33523, 34609, 34607 and 34606).

In 2018 16.83% of listings in Hernando County (averaging across 10 zip codes a sample of which are; 34601, 34609, 33597, 33523 and 34606) dropped their price.

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