The population of Lake county is estimated at 229,270. In 2017 there were 2,244 births and 2,444 deaths in Lake county. Lake county has 50,683 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 20,652 that are owned free and clear and 22,821 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lake County filed 123,190 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.2% of all Ohio filings and 0.083% of the entire nation. Lake had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,069,285,000 on earned income of $7,185,607,000. Other notable statistics from Lake County were 4,370 unemployment claims which collected a total of $20,238,000 and 30,340 charitable contributions valued at $101,670,000. 35,200 filings from Lake County paid a combined total of $141,490,000 in property taxes and 30,580 filings paid $175,330,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lake county had 167 religious congregations with an estimated 113,707 members.
27.2% of the Lake population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Lake County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,474 votes.
At $60,521 the median income is 111.9% of the Ohio average. An estimated 6,409 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lake, the equivalant of around 5.2% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Lake County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
19,183	Manufacturing
12,537	Retail trade
11,077	Health care and social assistance
9,279	Accommodation and food services
8,846	Food services and drinking places
8,118	Restaurants and other eating places
5,374	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
4,771	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,647	Administrative and support services
4,270	Ambulatory health care services
4,230	Full-service restaurants
3,255	Limited-service restaurants
3,056	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,993	Wholesale trade
2,817	Machine shops; turned product; and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.68% in Lake County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 44081, 44092, 44094, 44077 and 44060).

In 2018 16.88% of listings in Lake County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 44057, 44060, 44081, 44077 and 44094) dropped their price.

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