The population of Dougherty county is estimated at 90,395. In 2017 there were 1,221 births and 933 deaths in Dougherty county. Dougherty county has 11,788 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,779 that are owned free and clear and 18,941 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Dougherty County filed 36,120 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.8% of all Georgia filings and 0.024% of the entire nation. Dougherty had a combined total federal tax liability of $248,253,000 on earned income of $1,515,079,000. Other notable statistics from Dougherty County were 670 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,661,000 and 8,160 charitable contributions valued at $77,204,000. 6,500 filings from Dougherty County paid a combined total of $18,364,000 in property taxes and 5,370 filings paid $29,308,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Dougherty county had 134 religious congregations with an estimated 54,726 members.
20.7% of the Dougherty population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 17.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 38% of Dougherty County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 3,897 votes.
At $36,994 the median income is 65.9% of the Georgia average. An estimated 2,391 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Dougherty, the equivalant of around 6.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Dougherty County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,924	Health care and social assistance
6,397	Retail trade
4,149	Accommodation and food services
3,790	Food services and drinking places
3,575	Restaurants and other eating places
3,262	Manufacturing
2,524	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,384	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,348	Ambulatory health care services
2,166	Transportation and warehousing
1,832	Limited-service restaurants
1,517	Full-service restaurants
1,465	Employment services
1,451	Wholesale trade
1,208	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.00% in Dougherty County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 31707, 31705, 31701 and 31721).

In 2018 9.50% of listings in Dougherty County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 31721, 31705, 31707 and 31701) dropped their price.

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