The population of Okeechobee county is estimated at 40,697. In 2017 there were 503 births and 418 deaths in Okeechobee county. Okeechobee county has 5,554 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,630 that are owned free and clear and 3,829 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Okeechobee County filed 14,930 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all Florida filings and 0.010% of the entire nation. Okeechobee had a combined total federal tax liability of $101,076,000 on earned income of $651,557,000. Other notable statistics from Okeechobee County were 270 unemployment claims which collected a total of $759,000 and 1,330 charitable contributions valued at $7,628,000. 1,490 filings from Okeechobee County paid a combined total of $3,865,000 in property taxes and 1,210 filings paid $8,248,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Okeechobee county had 53 religious congregations with an estimated 14,331 members.
11.0% of the Okeechobee population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 26.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 33% of Okeechobee County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,311 votes.
At $42,524 the median income is 80.9% of the Florida average. An estimated 782 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Okeechobee, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Okeechobee County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,518	Retail trade
1,305	Health care and social assistance
912	Accommodation and food services
858	Food services and drinking places
837	Restaurants and other eating places
515	Ambulatory health care services
474	Full-service restaurants
287	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
280	Food and beverage stores
257	Grocery stores
228	Transportation and warehousing
225	Other services (except public administration)
223	Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers
219	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
216	Finance and insurance

In 2018 9.21% of listings in Okeechobee County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 34974 and 34972) dropped their price.

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