The population of Hillsborough county is estimated at 1,381,627 where 865,383 speak English exclusively and 9,281 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 17,606 births and 11,302 deaths in Hillsborough county. Hillsborough county has 214,198 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 74,621 that are owned free and clear and 185,211 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Hillsborough County filed 642,880 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 6.6% of all Florida filings and 0.431% of the entire nation. Hillsborough had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $7,126,800,000 on earned income of $40,279,772,000. Other notable statistics from Hillsborough County were 8,580 unemployment claims which collected a total of $28,018,000 and 114,040 charitable contributions valued at $720,791,000. 116,350 filings from Hillsborough County paid a combined total of $526,815,000 in property taxes and 105,810 filings paid $935,435,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Hillsborough county had 1,005 religious congregations with an estimated 488,899 members.
32.0% of the Hillsborough population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 43% of Hillsborough County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 53,569 votes.
At $54,741 the median income is 104.1% of the Florida average. An estimated 27,695 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Hillsborough, the equivalant of around 3.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Hillsborough County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
134,053	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
72,572	Health care and social assistance
63,643	Retail trade
52,511	Professional, scientific, and technical services
49,344	Accommodation and food services
44,159	Finance and insurance
40,892	Food services and drinking places
36,045	Restaurants and other eating places
30,358	Ambulatory health care services
25,389	Hospitals
25,316	Wholesale trade
22,162	General medical and surgical hospitals
21,287	Credit intermediation and related activities
19,780	Full-service restaurants
19,656	Information

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.24% in Hillsborough County (averaging across 47 zip codes a sample of which are; 33598, 33548 and 33573).

In 2018 22.73% of listings in Hillsborough County (averaging across 49 zip codes a sample of which are; 33624, 33584 and 33602) dropped their price.

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