The population of Mason county is estimated at 28,846. In 2017 there were 293 births and 291 deaths in Mason county. Mason county has 5,515 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,613 that are owned free and clear and 2,812 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Mason County filed 14,170 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.3% of all Michigan filings and 0.010% of the entire nation. Mason had a combined total federal tax liability of $96,933,000 on earned income of $685,512,000. Other notable statistics from Mason County were 880 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,230,000 and 2,270 charitable contributions valued at $10,462,000. 2,600 filings from Mason County paid a combined total of $9,251,000 in property taxes and 1,990 filings paid $11,084,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Mason county had 56 religious congregations with an estimated 12,700 members.
22.2% of the Mason population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 51% of Mason County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 70 votes.
At $46,579 the median income is 84.9% of the Michigan average. An estimated 823 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Mason, the equivalant of around 5.8% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Mason County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,800	Manufacturing
1,446	Health care and social assistance
1,428	Retail trade
980	Accommodation and food services
839	Food services and drinking places
773	Restaurants and other eating places
604	Ambulatory health care services
560	Real estate and rental and leasing
478	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
476	Real estate
416	Full-service restaurants
395	Furniture and related product manufacturing
332	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
314	Offices of physicians
312	Administrative and support services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.87% in Mason County.

In 2018 10.23% of listings in Mason County.

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