The population of Lake county is estimated at 335,431. In 2017 there were 3,302 births and 4,192 deaths in Lake county. Lake county has 56,299 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 36,503 that are owned free and clear and 28,487 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lake County filed 160,270 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.7% of all Florida filings and 0.108% of the entire nation. Lake had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,305,174,000 on earned income of $8,716,350,000. Other notable statistics from Lake County were 1,880 unemployment claims which collected a total of $6,496,000 and 28,580 charitable contributions valued at $150,355,000. 30,190 filings from Lake County paid a combined total of $104,664,000 in property taxes and 25,880 filings paid $203,873,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lake county had 323 religious congregations with an estimated 114,251 members.
22.4% of the Lake population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 51% of Lake County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 19,102 votes.
At $51,429 the median income is 97.8% of the Florida average. An estimated 6,151 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lake, 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 Lake County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
15,150	Health care and social assistance
13,430	Retail trade
8,045	Accommodation and food services
7,216	Food services and drinking places
7,048	Restaurants and other eating places
6,844	Ambulatory health care services
5,433	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
5,191	Administrative and support services
4,463	Full-service restaurants
3,932	General medical and surgical hospitals
3,932	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
3,691	General merchandise stores
2,769	Services to buildings and dwellings
2,625	Offices of physicians
2,508	Other general merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.49% in Lake County (averaging across 14 zip codes a sample of which are; 34748, 34711, 32736, 32726 and 32757).

In 2018 19.12% of listings in Lake County (averaging across 14 zip codes a sample of which are; 34748, 32784, 32726, 32776 and 32159) dropped their price.

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