The population of Ellis county is estimated at 168,381. In 2017 there were 2,245 births and 1,263 deaths in Ellis county. Ellis county has 27,249 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 10,333 that are owned free and clear and 12,921 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Ellis County filed 77,350 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.6% of all Texas filings and 0.052% of the entire nation. Ellis had a combined total federal tax liability of $720,587,000 on earned income of $4,751,719,000. Other notable statistics from Ellis County were 1,960 unemployment claims which collected a total of $10,352,000 and 16,830 charitable contributions valued at $114,305,000. 17,980 filings from Ellis County paid a combined total of $87,807,000 in property taxes and 16,420 filings paid $120,298,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Ellis county had 225 religious congregations with an estimated 77,746 members.
22.1% of the Ellis population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 37% of Ellis County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 9,308 votes.
At $71,512 the median income is 120.8% of the Texas average. An estimated 2,991 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ellis, the equivalant of around 3.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Ellis County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,301	Manufacturing
5,007	Retail trade
3,753	Accommodation and food services
3,610	Health care and social assistance
3,574	Food services and drinking places
3,309	Restaurants and other eating places
2,754	Transportation and warehousing
1,896	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
1,790	Limited-service restaurants
1,670	General merchandise stores
1,670	Warehousing and storage
1,627	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,371	Ambulatory health care services
1,348	Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing
1,257	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.62% in Ellis County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 75167, 76065, 75165 and 75119).

In 2018 14.47% of listings in Ellis County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 75165, 76065, 75167 and 75119) dropped their price.

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