The population of Marion county is estimated at 348,139. In 2017 there were 3,533 births and 4,945 deaths in Marion county. Marion county has 60,170 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 44,905 that are owned free and clear and 32,651 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Marion County filed 157,560 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.6% of all Florida filings and 0.106% of the entire nation. Marion had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,177,533,000 on earned income of $7,441,671,000. Other notable statistics from Marion County were 2,250 unemployment claims which collected a total of $7,412,000 and 21,090 charitable contributions valued at $117,982,000. 22,080 filings from Marion County paid a combined total of $72,729,000 in property taxes and 17,720 filings paid $126,936,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Marion county had 364 religious congregations with an estimated 115,580 members.
19.4% of the Marion population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 50% of Marion County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 13,117 votes.
At $43,772 the median income is 83.2% of the Florida average. An estimated 6,619 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Marion, the equivalant of around 5.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Marion County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
15,494	Health care and social assistance
14,430	Retail trade
7,369	Accommodation and food services
6,974	Ambulatory health care services
6,932	Food services and drinking places
6,820	Restaurants and other eating places
5,448	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
5,276	Administrative and support services
4,806	Manufacturing
3,842	Full-service restaurants
3,676	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,437	General merchandise stores
3,157	Wholesale trade
3,136	Offices of physicians
3,100	Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists)

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.44% in Marion County (averaging across 16 zip codes a sample of which are; 34474, 34476, 34480, 34481 and 34431).

In 2018 14.31% of listings in Marion County (averaging across 20 zip codes a sample of which are; 34434, 34476, 34432, 34481 and 34471) dropped their price.

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