The population of Dekalb county is estimated at 746,690 where 527,947 speak English exclusively and 17,544 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 11,021 births and 4,637 deaths in Dekalb county. Dekalb county has 128,353 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 26,294 that are owned free and clear and 117,162 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Dekalb County filed 343,770 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 7.8% of all Georgia filings and 0.231% of the entire nation. Dekalb had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,839,493,000 on earned income of $22,376,330,000. Other notable statistics from Dekalb County were 7,660 unemployment claims which collected a total of $23,623,000 and 106,650 charitable contributions valued at $756,628,000. 94,320 filings from Dekalb County paid a combined total of $369,429,000 in property taxes and 85,260 filings paid $668,577,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Dekalb county had 520 religious congregations with an estimated 331,999 members.
42.1% of the Dekalb population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 40% of DeKalb County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 9,428 votes.
At $61,496 the median income is 109.6% of the Georgia average. An estimated 18,976 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Dekalb, the equivalant of around 4.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Dekalb County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
39,802	Health care and social assistance
30,430	Retail trade
23,641	Accommodation and food services
22,545	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
21,706	Administrative and support services
21,425	Food services and drinking places
21,242	Information
20,010	Restaurants and other eating places
17,884	Professional, scientific, and technical services
14,693	Ambulatory health care services
13,969	Hospitals
13,420	Telecommunications
12,367	Employment services
11,473	Transportation and warehousing
10,958	Manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.80% in Dekalb County (averaging across 19 zip codes a sample of which are; 30319, 30338, 30341 and 30030).

In 2018 16.00% of listings in Dekalb County (averaging across 20 zip codes a sample of which are; 30329, 30084, 30030 and 30087) dropped their price.

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