Los Alamos County is the wealthiest county in New Mexico. Los Alamos is the largest city located within this county. Moreover, this county is among the top ten wealthiest in the nation.
  The population of Los Alamos county is estimated at 18,152. In 2017 there were 185 births and 113 deaths in Los Alamos county. Los Alamos county has 4,021 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 1,807 that are owned free and clear and 1,835 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Los Alamos County filed 9,260 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.0% of all New Mexico filings and 0.006% of the entire nation. Los Alamos had a combined total federal tax liability of $158,662,000 on earned income of $962,913,000. Other notable statistics from Los Alamos County were 130 unemployment claims which collected a total of $686,000 and 3,560 charitable contributions valued at $22,039,000. 3,970 filings from Los Alamos County paid a combined total of $11,239,000 in property taxes and 3,150 filings paid $26,925,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Los Alamos county had 35 religious congregations with an estimated 12,093 members.
65.5% of the Los Alamos population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 2.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 57% of Los Alamos County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 224 votes.
At $118,380 the median income is 251.4% of the New Mexico average. An estimated 341 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Los Alamos, the equivalant of around 3.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Los Alamos County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,095	Health care and social assistance
640	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
472	Retail trade
450	Accommodation and food services
428	Ambulatory health care services
360	Food services and drinking places
307	Finance and insurance
284	Credit intermediation and related activities
284	Depository credit intermediation
249	Offices of physicians
203	Other services (except public administration)
151	Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations
124	Limited-service restaurants
90	Accommodation
90	Traveler accommodation

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