The population of Kent county is estimated at 642,909. In 2017 there were 8,839 births and 4,668 deaths in Kent county. Kent county has 115,249 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 43,052 that are owned free and clear and 68,938 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Kent County filed 308,680 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 6.5% of all Michigan filings and 0.207% of the entire nation. Kent had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,532,399,000 on earned income of $20,975,037,000. Other notable statistics from Kent County were 10,090 unemployment claims which collected a total of $33,094,000 and 71,630 charitable contributions valued at $622,962,000. 80,010 filings from Kent County paid a combined total of $330,783,000 in property taxes and 66,770 filings paid $411,712,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Kent county had 566 religious congregations with an estimated 329,532 members.
34.7% of the Kent population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 48% of Kent County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 10,852 votes.
At $61,146 the median income is 111.5% of the Michigan average. An estimated 12,543 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Kent, the equivalant of around 3.5% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Kent County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
57,371	Manufacturing
50,294	Health care and social assistance
39,653	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
38,988	Administrative and support services
31,615	Retail trade
28,350	Employment services
25,307	Accommodation and food services
22,518	Food services and drinking places
22,090	Wholesale trade
21,116	Temporary help services
20,881	Ambulatory health care services
20,236	Restaurants and other eating places
14,855	Hospitals
14,493	Finance and insurance
13,433	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.88% in Kent County (averaging across 19 zip codes a sample of which are; 49509, 49341, 49525, 49418 and 49504).

In 2018 16.73% of listings in Kent County (averaging across 22 zip codes a sample of which are; 49508, 49345, 49306, 49548 and 49315) dropped their price.

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