The population of Benton county is estimated at 89,296. In 2017 there were 760 births and 582 deaths in Benton county. Benton county has 12,844 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,334 that are owned free and clear and 15,139 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Benton County filed 39,150 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.1% of all Oregon filings and 0.026% of the entire nation. Benton had a combined total federal tax liability of $388,707,000 on earned income of $2,772,420,000. Other notable statistics from Benton County were 1,240 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,783,000 and 12,650 charitable contributions valued at $67,842,000. 13,770 filings from Benton County paid a combined total of $62,778,000 in property taxes and 10,710 filings paid $83,718,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Benton county had 84 religious congregations with an estimated 22,224 members.
53.8% of the Benton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 4.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 51% of Benton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,315 votes.
At $60,572 the median income is 100.7% of the Oregon average. An estimated 1,570 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Benton, the equivalant of around 3.3% 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 Benton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
5,258	Health care and social assistance
3,455	Retail trade
3,087	Accommodation and food services
2,787	Food services and drinking places
2,526	Restaurants and other eating places
1,996	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,613	Manufacturing
1,137	Full-service restaurants
1,089	Limited-service restaurants
1,012	Food and beverage stores
967	Grocery stores
921	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
891	Other services (except public administration)
861	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
785	Information

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.48% in Benton County.

In 2018 12.20% of listings in Benton County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 97330 and 97333) dropped their price.

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