Hunterdon County is the wealthiest county in New Jersey. Raritan is the largest city located within this county. Moreover, this county is among the top ten wealthiest in the nation.
  The population of Hunterdon county is estimated at 125,061. In 2017 there were 915 births and 963 deaths in Hunterdon county. Hunterdon county has 30,370 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 9,210 that are owned free and clear and 7,589 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Hunterdon County filed 64,920 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.5% of all New Jersey filings and 0.044% of the entire nation. Hunterdon had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,542,239,000 on earned income of $8,011,254,000. Other notable statistics from Hunterdon County were 3,050 unemployment claims which collected a total of $20,867,000 and 31,570 charitable contributions valued at $121,520,000. 34,150 filings from Hunterdon County paid a combined total of $354,145,000 in property taxes and 27,010 filings paid $256,923,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Hunterdon county had 111 religious congregations with an estimated 65,514 members.
50.7% of the Hunterdon population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 56% of Hunterdon County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 7,761 votes.
At $113,083 the median income is 141.2% of the New Jersey average. An estimated 2,285 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Hunterdon, the equivalant of around 3.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Hunterdon County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
7,216	Health care and social assistance
6,561	Retail trade
4,111	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,518	Accommodation and food services
3,485	Manufacturing
3,283	Finance and insurance
3,264	Food services and drinking places
2,812	Restaurants and other eating places
2,592	Ambulatory health care services
2,310	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,129	Administrative and support services
1,881	Full-service restaurants
1,868	Wholesale trade
1,676	Food and beverage stores
1,466	Other services (except public administration)

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.09% in Hunterdon County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 8822, 8826, 8809, 8801 and 8889).

In 2018 17.97% of listings in Hunterdon County (averaging across 14 zip codes a sample of which are; 8826, 8848, 8801, 8559 and 8827) dropped their price.

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