The population of Lee county is estimated at 722,506 where 473,959 speak English exclusively and 1,736 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 6,892 births and 7,417 deaths in Lee county. Lee county has 113,208 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 71,269 that are owned free and clear and 75,341 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lee County filed 334,840 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.5% of all Florida filings and 0.225% of the entire nation. Lee had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $4,362,750,000 on earned income of $23,859,641,000. Other notable statistics from Lee County were 4,140 unemployment claims which collected a total of $15,811,000 and 70,100 charitable contributions valued at $528,413,000. 73,940 filings from Lee County paid a combined total of $471,331,000 in property taxes and 56,320 filings paid $479,165,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lee county had 430 religious congregations with an estimated 233,165 members.
27.2% of the Lee population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 45% of Lee County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 59,763 votes.
At $54,198 the median income is 103.1% of the Florida average. An estimated 13,362 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lee, the equivalant of around 4.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Lee County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
39,480	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
38,880	Administrative and support services
34,453	Retail trade
26,009	Health care and social assistance
25,851	Accommodation and food services
21,523	Food services and drinking places
20,079	Restaurants and other eating places
13,379	Full-service restaurants
12,312	Professional, scientific, and technical services
11,258	Ambulatory health care services
6,965	Food and beverage stores
6,696	Other services (except public administration)
6,591	Grocery stores
6,394	Nursing and residential care facilities
6,304	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.53% in Lee County (averaging across 31 zip codes a sample of which are; 33914, 34135, 33957, 33967 and 33919).

In 2018 18.72% of listings in Lee County (averaging across 32 zip codes a sample of which are; 33905, 33916, 33919, 33920 and 33974) dropped their price.

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