The population of Monroe county is estimated at 149,223. In 2017 there were 1,493 births and 1,406 deaths in Monroe county. Monroe county has 32,532 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,964 that are owned free and clear and 11,734 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Monroe County filed 74,070 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.6% of all Michigan filings and 0.050% of the entire nation. Monroe had a combined total federal tax liability of $641,003,000 on earned income of $4,361,731,000. Other notable statistics from Monroe County were 3,900 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,647,000 and 17,140 charitable contributions valued at $58,899,000. 19,270 filings from Monroe County paid a combined total of $55,617,000 in property taxes and 17,260 filings paid $107,023,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Monroe county had 150 religious congregations with an estimated 69,122 members.
18.6% of the Monroe population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 50% of Monroe County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,419 votes.
At $61,121 the median income is 111.5% of the Michigan average. An estimated 3,713 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Monroe, the equivalant of around 4.9% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Monroe County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,591	Manufacturing
5,347	Health care and social assistance
4,977	Retail trade
4,280	Accommodation and food services
3,861	Food services and drinking places
3,481	Restaurants and other eating places
2,621	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,335	Administrative and support services
1,778	Ambulatory health care services
1,725	Limited-service restaurants
1,669	Transportation and warehousing
1,617	Full-service restaurants
1,272	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
1,225	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
1,160	Machinery manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.99% in Monroe County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 48144, 48131, 48162, 48161 and 48182).

In 2018 13.82% of listings in Monroe County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 48117, 48182, 48161, 48131 and 48166) dropped their price.

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