The population of Ector county is estimated at 157,580. In 2017 there were 2,797 births and 1,220 deaths in Ector county. Ector county has 16,168 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 16,782 that are owned free and clear and 15,738 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Ector County filed 65,870 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.5% of all Texas filings and 0.044% of the entire nation. Ector had a combined total federal tax liability of $599,562,000 on earned income of $3,553,576,000. Other notable statistics from Ector County were 3,940 unemployment claims which collected a total of $24,400,000 and 7,090 charitable contributions valued at $54,489,000. 8,520 filings from Ector County paid a combined total of $33,831,000 in property taxes and 7,160 filings paid $50,042,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Ector county had 167 religious congregations with an estimated 72,110 members.
15.0% of the Ector population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 25.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 23% of Ector County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 3,965 votes.
At $54,422 the median income is 91.9% of the Texas average. An estimated 3,212 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ector, the equivalant of around 4.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Ector County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
7,384	Health care and social assistance
7,286	Retail trade
6,150	Accommodation and food services
5,754	Food services and drinking places
5,417	Restaurants and other eating places
4,756	Manufacturing
4,659	Wholesale trade
3,674	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
3,452	Transportation and warehousing
2,941	Limited-service restaurants
2,708	Truck transportation
2,681	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,610	Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers
2,490	Administrative and support services
2,276	Other services (except public administration)

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.55% in Ector County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 79763, 79762 and 79761).

In 2018 15.04% of listings in Ector County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 79765, 79761, 79763 and 79762) dropped their price.

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