The population of Berrien county is estimated at 154,157. In 2017 there were 1,718 births and 1,639 deaths in Berrien county. Berrien county has 29,153 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 15,910 that are owned free and clear and 17,991 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Berrien County filed 72,730 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.5% of all Michigan filings and 0.049% of the entire nation. Berrien had a combined total federal tax liability of $681,247,000 on earned income of $4,128,045,000. Other notable statistics from Berrien County were 2,850 unemployment claims which collected a total of $10,747,000 and 13,800 charitable contributions valued at $83,590,000. 15,520 filings from Berrien County paid a combined total of $57,934,000 in property taxes and 12,610 filings paid $82,564,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Berrien county had 246 religious congregations with an estimated 73,712 members.
26.7% of the Berrien population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 47% of Berrien County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 440 votes.
At $48,924 the median income is 89.2% of the Michigan average. An estimated 3,668 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Berrien, the equivalant of around 5.0% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Berrien County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,410	Health care and social assistance
8,330	Manufacturing
6,783	Retail trade
5,323	Accommodation and food services
4,670	Food services and drinking places
4,229	Restaurants and other eating places
3,032	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,842	Administrative and support services
2,652	Full-service restaurants
2,513	Ambulatory health care services
2,149	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,782	Employment services
1,654	General merchandise stores
1,473	Temporary help services
1,445	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.08% in Berrien County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 49085, 49120, 49107, 49038 and 49127).

In 2018 12.58% of listings in Berrien County (averaging across 10 zip codes a sample of which are; 49098, 49106, 49120, 49107 and 49038) dropped their price.

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