The population of Sarasota county is estimated at 412,879. In 2017 there were 2,905 births and 5,864 deaths in Sarasota county. Sarasota county has 76,072 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 55,687 that are owned free and clear and 43,987 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Sarasota County filed 204,610 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.1% of all Florida filings and 0.137% of the entire nation. Sarasota had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,287,974,000 on earned income of $16,818,296,000. Other notable statistics from Sarasota County were 2,290 unemployment claims which collected a total of $8,707,000 and 50,310 charitable contributions valued at $483,299,000. 52,310 filings from Sarasota County paid a combined total of $324,292,000 in property taxes and 37,620 filings paid $332,208,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Sarasota county had 292 religious congregations with an estimated 165,091 members.
33.9% of the Sarasota population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 55% of Sarasota County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 21,075 votes.
At $58,423 the median income is 111.1% of the Florida average. An estimated 7,143 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Sarasota, 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 Sarasota County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
25,814	Health care and social assistance
21,356	Retail trade
16,450	Accommodation and food services
14,499	Food services and drinking places
13,837	Restaurants and other eating places
10,147	Ambulatory health care services
10,061	Full-service restaurants
9,912	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
9,386	Administrative and support services
8,573	Professional, scientific, and technical services
7,020	Nursing and residential care facilities
5,559	Manufacturing
5,514	Finance and insurance
4,738	Other services (except public administration)
4,724	Food and beverage stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.76% in Sarasota County (averaging across 24 zip codes a sample of which are; 34287, 34238, 34233, 34231 and 34236).

In 2018 18.70% of listings in Sarasota County (averaging across 24 zip codes a sample of which are; 34242, 34235, 34293, 34243 and 34237) dropped their price.

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