The population of Kalamazoo county is estimated at 261,056. In 2017 there were 3,173 births and 2,184 deaths in Kalamazoo county. Kalamazoo county has 45,682 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 18,572 that are owned free and clear and 36,356 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Kalamazoo County filed 120,640 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.6% of all Michigan filings and 0.081% of the entire nation. Kalamazoo had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,299,105,000 on earned income of $7,905,156,000. Other notable statistics from Kalamazoo County were 3,800 unemployment claims which collected a total of $12,827,000 and 26,860 charitable contributions valued at $152,856,000. 30,540 filings from Kalamazoo County paid a combined total of $135,709,000 in property taxes and 25,250 filings paid $154,749,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Kalamazoo county had 226 religious congregations with an estimated 95,754 members.
37.2% of the Kalamazoo population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 6.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 48% of Kalamazoo County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 3,086 votes.
At $56,199 the median income is 102.5% of the Michigan average. An estimated 5,456 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Kalamazoo, the equivalant of around 4.1% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Kalamazoo County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
18,751	Health care and social assistance
15,557	Manufacturing
12,708	Retail trade
11,663	Accommodation and food services
10,290	Food services and drinking places
9,444	Restaurants and other eating places
8,129	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
6,655	Hospitals
6,578	Ambulatory health care services
6,084	Finance and insurance
4,838	Temporary help services
4,663	Full-service restaurants
4,149	Limited-service restaurants
3,689	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,668	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.55% in Kalamazoo County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 49006, 49008, 49001, 49048 and 49024).

In 2018 15.45% of listings in Kalamazoo County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 49048, 49053, 49009, 49004 and 49024) dropped their price.

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