The population of Colorado county is estimated at 21,027. In 2017 there were 262 births and 265 deaths in Colorado county. Colorado county has 2,500 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,727 that are owned free and clear and 1,955 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Colorado County filed 9,440 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.1% of all Texas filings and 0.006% of the entire nation. Colorado had a combined total federal tax liability of $95,343,000 on earned income of $541,815,000. Other notable statistics from Colorado County were 300 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,823,000 and 1,080 charitable contributions valued at $7,153,000. 1,110 filings from Colorado County paid a combined total of $5,054,000 in property taxes and 800 filings paid $6,104,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Colorado county had 48 religious congregations with an estimated 12,401 members.
18.9% of the Colorado population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 17.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 40% of Colorado County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 385 votes.
At $49,100 the median income is 82.9% of the Texas average. An estimated 387 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Colorado, the equivalant of around 3.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Colorado County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,597	Manufacturing
1,165	Health care and social assistance
905	Retail trade
578	Accommodation and food services
518	Food services and drinking places
485	Restaurants and other eating places
429	Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing
393	Ambulatory health care services
363	Hospitals
363	General medical and surgical hospitals
318	Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities)
262	Wholesale trade
257	Limited-service restaurants
222	Full-service restaurants
221	Food and beverage stores

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