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  Chester County is the wealthiest county in Pennsylvania.
  The population of Chester county is estimated at 516,489 where 416,925 speak English exclusively and 1,196 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 5,438 births and 4,072 deaths in Chester county. Chester county has 105,549 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 33,779 that are owned free and clear and 43,572 that are renter occupied.


  The good residents of Chester County filed 253,910 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.1% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.170% of the entire nation. Chester had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $5,614,311,000 on earned income of $28,690,369,000. Other notable statistics from Chester County were 9,820 unemployment claims which collected a total of $53,410,000 and 101,600 charitable contributions valued at $563,112,000. 110,060 filings from Chester County paid a combined total of $765,536,000 in property taxes and 93,410 filings paid $872,841,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Chester county had 410 religious congregations with an estimated 315,590 members.

51.0% of the Chester population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.


Approximately 52% of Chester County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 18,342 votes.

At $96,803 the median income is 163.6% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 10,083 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Chester, 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 Chester County.
Total # EmployedIndustry Job Type
34,065Health care and social assistance
27,549Retail trade
24,814Finance and insurance
24,728Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
23,743Administrative and support services
20,472Professional, scientific, and technical services
16,302Securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investments and related activities
16,067Manufacturing
15,867Accommodation and food services
15,710Other financial investment activities
14,983Portfolio management
14,914Food services and drinking places
14,042Employment services
12,653Temporary help services
12,642Wholesale trade


In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.80% in Chester County (averaging across 19 zip codes a sample of which are; 19460, 19335, 19311, 19425 and 19390).

In 2018 15.86% of listings in Chester County (averaging across 20 zip codes a sample of which are; 19363, 19460, 19465, 19348 and 19352) dropped their price.


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