The population of Lorain county is estimated at 306,590. In 2017 there were 3,329 births and 2,947 deaths in Lorain county. Lorain county has 60,878 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 23,868 that are owned free and clear and 31,528 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lorain County filed 149,330 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.7% of all Ohio filings and 0.100% of the entire nation. Lorain had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,324,088,000 on earned income of $8,677,999,000. Other notable statistics from Lorain County were 6,680 unemployment claims which collected a total of $31,261,000 and 35,250 charitable contributions valued at $131,403,000. 39,930 filings from Lorain County paid a combined total of $164,441,000 in property taxes and 35,490 filings paid $209,667,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lorain county had 291 religious congregations with an estimated 132,752 members.
23.7% of the Lorain population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Lorain County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,859 votes.
At $55,443 the median income is 102.5% of the Ohio average. An estimated 9,361 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lorain, the equivalant of around 6.2% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Lorain County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
16,010	Manufacturing
13,559	Health care and social assistance
12,995	Retail trade
8,536	Accommodation and food services
8,248	Food services and drinking places
7,454	Restaurants and other eating places
4,891	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,525	Ambulatory health care services
4,304	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
4,234	Administrative and support services
3,704	Limited-service restaurants
3,507	Transportation equipment manufacturing
3,484	Nursing and residential care facilities
3,297	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,182	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.77% in Lorain County (averaging across 10 zip codes a sample of which are; 44011, 44044, 44001, 44039 and 44089).

In 2018 13.85% of listings in Lorain County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 44054, 44089, 44012, 44052 and 44001) dropped their price.

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