The population of Gratiot county is estimated at 40,932. In 2017 there were 388 births and 434 deaths in Gratiot county. Gratiot county has 6,962 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,137 that are owned free and clear and 3,753 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Gratiot County filed 16,910 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.4% of all Michigan filings and 0.011% of the entire nation. Gratiot had a combined total federal tax liability of $116,756,000 on earned income of $801,668,000. Other notable statistics from Gratiot County were 1,020 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,123,000 and 1,970 charitable contributions valued at $10,636,000. 2,290 filings from Gratiot County paid a combined total of $6,354,000 in property taxes and 1,770 filings paid $8,674,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Gratiot county had 79 religious congregations with an estimated 13,269 members.
14.7% of the Gratiot population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 40% of Gratiot County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 431 votes.
At $42,653 the median income is 77.8% of the Michigan average. An estimated 993 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Gratiot, the equivalant of around 5.5% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Gratiot County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,401	Manufacturing
2,339	Health care and social assistance
1,339	Retail trade
1,009	Accommodation and food services
972	Food services and drinking places
715	Restaurants and other eating places
472	General merchandise stores
465	Limited-service restaurants
405	Finance and insurance
375	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
319	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
313	Machinery manufacturing
310	Transportation and warehousing
271	Commercial banking
255	Truck transportation

In 2018 11.10% of listings in Gratiot County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 48801 and 48880) dropped their price.

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