The population of Bourbon county is estimated at 14,672. In 2017 there were 204 births and 145 deaths in Bourbon county. Bourbon county has 2,248 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 1,996 that are owned free and clear and 1,742 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Bourbon County filed 6,180 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.5% of all Kansas filings and 0.004% of the entire nation. Bourbon had a combined total federal tax liability of $34,847,000 on earned income of $250,117,000. Other notable statistics from Bourbon County were 320 unemployment claims which collected a total of $933,000 and 690 charitable contributions valued at $3,954,000. 750 filings from Bourbon County paid a combined total of $2,218,000 in property taxes and 500 filings paid $2,376,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Bourbon county had 44 religious congregations with an estimated 8,108 members.
19.1% of the Bourbon population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 40% of Bourbon County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 200 votes.
At $41,847 the median income is 74.2% of the Kansas average. An estimated 309 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Bourbon, the equivalant of around 4.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Bourbon County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,031	Health care and social assistance
980	Manufacturing
611	Retail trade
386	Accommodation and food services
349	Finance and insurance
337	Food services and drinking places
324	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
311	Restaurants and other eating places
301	Nursing and residential care facilities
279	Printing and related support activities
208	Ambulatory health care services
183	Limited-service restaurants
116	Professional, scientific, and technical services
110	Gasoline stations
108	Offices of physicians

Interested in adding housing statistics for Bourbon County to your website? Click here for the QuantaLoan.com county widget code for Bourbon, Kansas.