Cumberland County is the wealthiest county in Maine. Portland is the largest city located within this county.
  The population of Cumberland county is estimated at 290,905. In 2017 there were 2,765 births and 2,641 deaths in Cumberland county. Cumberland county has 58,138 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 20,407 that are owned free and clear and 38,794 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Cumberland County filed 153,010 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 23.5% of all Maine filings and 0.103% of the entire nation. Cumberland had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,855,897,000 on earned income of $11,540,177,000. Other notable statistics from Cumberland County were 3,600 unemployment claims which collected a total of $14,488,000 and 45,010 charitable contributions valued at $194,529,000. 52,260 filings from Cumberland County paid a combined total of $283,651,000 in property taxes and 43,920 filings paid $337,384,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Cumberland county had 247 religious congregations with an estimated 80,252 members.
45.0% of the Cumberland population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 59% of Cumberland County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 4,354 votes.
At $70,661 the median income is 126.2% of the Maine average. An estimated 4,206 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Cumberland, the equivalant of around 2.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 2.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Cumberland County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
33,687	Health care and social assistance
21,738	Retail trade
15,001	Accommodation and food services
13,236	Finance and insurance
13,077	Food services and drinking places
11,864	Restaurants and other eating places
11,174	Ambulatory health care services
10,502	General medical and surgical hospitals
10,502	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
10,188	Professional, scientific, and technical services
8,691	Manufacturing
8,655	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
8,143	Administrative and support services
8,055	Insurance carriers and related activities
7,008	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.24% in Cumberland County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 4011, 4062, 4009, 4105 and 4102).

In 2018 16.15% of listings in Cumberland County (averaging across 17 zip codes a sample of which are; 4107, 4103, 4102, 4101 and 4062) dropped their price.

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