The population of Ottawa county is estimated at 283,242. In 2017 there were 3,375 births and 1,864 deaths in Ottawa county. Ottawa county has 51,690 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 21,613 that are owned free and clear and 20,472 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Ottawa County filed 133,250 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.8% of all Michigan filings and 0.089% of the entire nation. Ottawa had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,461,831,000 on earned income of $9,166,180,000. Other notable statistics from Ottawa County were 4,040 unemployment claims which collected a total of $13,435,000 and 35,780 charitable contributions valued at $304,703,000. 39,150 filings from Ottawa County paid a combined total of $148,640,000 in property taxes and 31,870 filings paid $195,817,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Ottawa county had 281 religious congregations with an estimated 139,186 members.
32.5% of the Ottawa population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 51% of Ottawa County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 12,710 votes.
At $68,816 the median income is 125.5% of the Michigan average. An estimated 5,263 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ottawa, the equivalant of around 3.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Ottawa County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
31,831	Manufacturing
10,295	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
10,051	Administrative and support services
9,714	Retail trade
9,453	Health care and social assistance
7,573	Accommodation and food services
6,996	Food services and drinking places
6,473	Restaurants and other eating places
4,936	Furniture and related product manufacturing
4,507	Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing
4,480	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
4,338	Office furniture (including fixtures) manufacturing
4,269	Food manufacturing
4,202	Transportation equipment manufacturing
3,659	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.67% in Ottawa County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 49401, 49423, 49428, 49464 and 49424).

In 2018 18.84% of listings in Ottawa County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 49464, 49417, 49423 and 49424) dropped their price.

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