Howard County is the wealthiest county in Maryland. Columbia is the largest city located within this county. Moreover, this county is among the top ten wealthiest in the nation.
  The population of Howard county is estimated at 316,966 where 213,967 speak English exclusively and 4,060 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 3,584 births and 1,811 deaths in Howard county. Howard county has 64,175 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,018 that are owned free and clear and 27,556 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Howard County filed 154,280 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.2% of all Maryland filings and 0.103% of the entire nation. Howard had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,870,307,000 on earned income of $16,355,113,000. Other notable statistics from Howard County were 3,280 unemployment claims which collected a total of $16,124,000 and 73,030 charitable contributions valued at $355,082,000. 72,490 filings from Howard County paid a combined total of $469,268,000 in property taxes and 63,050 filings paid $702,194,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Howard county had 201 religious congregations with an estimated 123,592 members.
61.2% of the Howard population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 4.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Howard County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 5,234 votes.
At $111,576 the median income is 138.2% of the Maryland average. An estimated 5,742 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Howard, the equivalant of around 3.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Howard County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
35,086	Professional, scientific, and technical services
15,811	Retail trade
14,235	Health care and social assistance
14,033	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
13,095	Administrative and support services
12,159	Computer systems design and related services
11,707	Wholesale trade
11,000	Accommodation and food services
10,125	Food services and drinking places
9,431	Restaurants and other eating places
6,813	Finance and insurance
5,912	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
5,900	Ambulatory health care services
5,795	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
5,723	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.79% in Howard County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 21043, 21042, 21045, 21046 and 21075).

In 2018 20.28% of listings in Howard County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 21044, 21042, 21046, 21075 and 21045) dropped their price.

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