The population of Sumter county is estimated at 122,121. In 2017 there were 494 births and 1,857 deaths in Sumter county. Sumter county has 17,989 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 19,096 that are owned free and clear and 4,276 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Sumter County filed 57,090 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.6% of all Florida filings and 0.038% of the entire nation. Sumter had a combined total federal tax liability of $741,114,000 on earned income of $4,396,208,000. Other notable statistics from Sumter County were 470 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,382,000 and 16,980 charitable contributions valued at $83,450,000. 17,690 filings from Sumter County paid a combined total of $85,169,000 in property taxes and 12,620 filings paid $92,521,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Sumter county had 99 religious congregations with an estimated 22,000 members.
30.9% of the Sumter population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 63% of Sumter County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 16,178 votes.
At $57,931 the median income is 110.2% of the Florida average. An estimated 1,828 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Sumter, the equivalant of around 6.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 7.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Sumter County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,956	Health care and social assistance
2,840	Retail trade
2,464	Accommodation and food services
2,350	Food services and drinking places
2,338	Restaurants and other eating places
1,603	Full-service restaurants
1,356	Ambulatory health care services
942	Manufacturing
698	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
681	Food and beverage stores
652	Grocery stores
610	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
510	Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists)
503	Finance and insurance
500	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.63% in Sumter County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 33513, 34785 and 32162).

In 2018 17.61% of listings in Sumter County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 33513, 34785 and 32162) dropped their price.

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