The population of Morris county is estimated at 498,844 where 356,513 speak English exclusively and 3,522 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 4,666 births and 3,792 deaths in Morris county. Morris county has 100,161 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 35,155 that are owned free and clear and 45,218 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Morris County filed 253,750 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.8% of all New Jersey filings and 0.170% of the entire nation. Morris had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $6,646,406,000 on earned income of $32,363,265,000. Other notable statistics from Morris County were 12,020 unemployment claims which collected a total of $83,015,000 and 115,360 charitable contributions valued at $621,447,000. 119,380 filings from Morris County paid a combined total of $1,321,058,000 in property taxes and 92,550 filings paid $959,418,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Morris county had 310 religious congregations with an estimated 293,864 members.
52.6% of the Morris population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 6.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 50% of Morris County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 42,268 votes.
At $114,269 the median income is 142.6% of the New Jersey average. An estimated 9,464 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Morris, the equivalant of around 3.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Morris County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
36,232	Professional, scientific, and technical services
34,457	Health care and social assistance
31,307	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
30,660	Administrative and support services
29,044	Retail trade
18,783	Accommodation and food services
18,769	Finance and insurance
16,629	Food services and drinking places
14,358	Manufacturing
14,194	Wholesale trade
13,038	Employment services
12,616	Ambulatory health care services
12,601	Restaurants and other eating places
10,049	Insurance carriers and related activities
9,995	Hospitals

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.50% in Morris County (averaging across 22 zip codes a sample of which are; 7828, 7928, 7054, 7885 and 7849).

In 2018 14.94% of listings in Morris County (averaging across 29 zip codes a sample of which are; 7054, 7005, 7940, 7849 and 7856) dropped their price.

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