The population of Cameron county is estimated at 421,766. In 2017 there were 7,047 births and 2,739 deaths in Cameron county. Cameron county has 40,702 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 39,710 that are owned free and clear and 39,219 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Cameron County filed 163,580 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.4% of all Texas filings and 0.110% of the entire nation. Cameron had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,051,606,000 on earned income of $6,247,465,000. Other notable statistics from Cameron County were 9,490 unemployment claims which collected a total of $46,039,000 and 13,880 charitable contributions valued at $68,021,000. 14,050 filings from Cameron County paid a combined total of $57,696,000 in property taxes and 11,930 filings paid $71,321,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Cameron county had 328 religious congregations with an estimated 202,006 members.
17.2% of the Cameron population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 33.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 22% of Cameron County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 17,002 votes.
At $36,624 the median income is 61.9% of the Texas average. An estimated 11,431 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Cameron, the equivalant of around 6.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 7.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Cameron County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
31,018	Health care and social assistance
16,624	Retail trade
13,915	Ambulatory health care services
12,582	Accommodation and food services
10,982	Food services and drinking places
10,215	Social assistance
10,103	Restaurants and other eating places
9,297	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
8,842	Administrative and support services
8,232	Individual and family services
7,458	Home health care services
4,844	Limited-service restaurants
4,691	Full-service restaurants
4,445	Hospitals
4,414	Manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.14% in Cameron County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 78526, 78550, 78578 and 78552).

In 2018 9.79% of listings in Cameron County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 78520, 78586, 78578 and 78552) dropped their price.

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