The population of Northampton county is estimated at 301,760. In 2017 there were 2,795 births and 2,914 deaths in Northampton county. Northampton county has 58,023 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 24,696 that are owned free and clear and 30,846 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Northampton County filed 153,240 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.5% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.103% of the entire nation. Northampton had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,618,736,000 on earned income of $10,085,360,000. Other notable statistics from Northampton County were 8,740 unemployment claims which collected a total of $43,070,000 and 42,520 charitable contributions valued at $147,528,000. 48,940 filings from Northampton County paid a combined total of $290,762,000 in property taxes and 41,870 filings paid $296,091,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Northampton county had 255 religious congregations with an estimated 158,759 members.
28.8% of the Northampton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 47% of Northampton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 16,892 votes.
At $65,872 the median income is 111.3% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 7,779 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Northampton, the equivalant of around 4.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Northampton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
13,343	Health care and social assistance
13,238	Retail trade
11,374	Manufacturing
11,011	Accommodation and food services
6,996	Restaurants and other eating places
6,553	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
6,199	Administrative and support services
5,847	Ambulatory health care services
4,570	Transportation and warehousing
4,512	Finance and insurance
4,342	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,917	Wholesale trade
3,857	Food and beverage stores
3,693	Full-service restaurants
3,492	Grocery stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.43% in Northampton County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 18020, 18064, 18040, 18017 and 18055).

In 2018 18.83% of listings in Northampton County (averaging across 13 zip codes a sample of which are; 18015, 18067, 18017, 18020 and 18088) dropped their price.

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