The population of Santa Rosa county is estimated at 170,063. In 2017 there were 1,951 births and 1,496 deaths in Santa Rosa county. Santa Rosa county has 30,949 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,504 that are owned free and clear and 13,457 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Santa Rosa County filed 76,020 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.8% of all Florida filings and 0.051% of the entire nation. Santa Rosa had a combined total federal tax liability of $703,428,000 on earned income of $4,677,396,000. Other notable statistics from Santa Rosa County were 1,100 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,930,000 and 13,040 charitable contributions valued at $74,644,000. 14,510 filings from Santa Rosa County paid a combined total of $41,200,000 in property taxes and 13,090 filings paid $112,917,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Santa Rosa county had 156 religious congregations with an estimated 67,058 members.
27.1% of the Santa Rosa population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 51% of Santa Rosa County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 10,616 votes.
At $65,434 the median income is 124.4% of the Florida average. An estimated 3,000 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Santa Rosa, 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 4.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Santa Rosa County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
4,644	Retail trade
3,479	Health care and social assistance
3,219	Accommodation and food services
3,111	Food services and drinking places
2,821	Restaurants and other eating places
1,851	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,570	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,561	Limited-service restaurants
1,436	General merchandise stores
1,332	Ambulatory health care services
1,119	Full-service restaurants
823	Food and beverage stores
780	Grocery stores
761	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
732	Other services (except public administration)

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