The population of Denton county is estimated at 808,299 where 497,568 speak English exclusively and 4,786 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 10,371 births and 3,893 deaths in Denton county. Denton county has 131,705 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 25,169 that are owned free and clear and 83,415 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Denton County filed 373,390 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.1% of all Texas filings and 0.250% of the entire nation. Denton had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $5,414,126,000 on earned income of $31,422,570,000. Other notable statistics from Denton County were 11,460 unemployment claims which collected a total of $59,196,000 and 108,350 charitable contributions valued at $667,336,000. 116,390 filings from Denton County paid a combined total of $809,023,000 in property taxes and 106,930 filings paid $908,005,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Denton county had 436 religious congregations with an estimated 266,302 members.
43.4% of the Denton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 36% of Denton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 53,162 votes.
At $86,462 the median income is 146.1% of the Texas average. An estimated 15,318 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Denton, 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 3.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Denton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
26,041	Retail trade
22,142	Accommodation and food services
21,835	Health care and social assistance
20,648	Food services and drinking places
19,442	Restaurants and other eating places
18,048	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
17,554	Administrative and support services
12,933	Manufacturing
12,383	Finance and insurance
10,718	Ambulatory health care services
10,202	Credit intermediation and related activities
9,735	Full-service restaurants
9,392	Transportation and warehousing
8,748	Limited-service restaurants
8,428	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.20% in Denton County (averaging across 18 zip codes a sample of which are; 75067, 76227, 76258, 75010 and 75006).

In 2018 18.44% of listings in Denton County (averaging across 21 zip codes a sample of which are; 75028, 76227, 76209, 76226 and 75068) dropped their price.

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