The population of Fort Bend county is estimated at 741,958 where 350,505 speak English exclusively and 12,526 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 10,214 births and 3,497 deaths in Fort Bend county. Fort Bend county has 118,789 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 30,960 that are owned free and clear and 37,635 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Fort Bend County filed 314,700 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.6% of all Texas filings and 0.211% of the entire nation. Fort Bend had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $5,037,114,000 on earned income of $27,954,096,000. Other notable statistics from Fort Bend County were 13,400 unemployment claims which collected a total of $88,717,000 and 97,720 charitable contributions valued at $587,559,000. 105,510 filings from Fort Bend County paid a combined total of $881,656,000 in property taxes and 94,260 filings paid $769,277,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Fort Bend county had 347 religious congregations with an estimated 236,412 members.
45.7% of the Fort Bend population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 35% of Fort Bend County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 41,117 votes.
At $91,661 the median income is 154.8% of the Texas average. An estimated 17,129 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Fort Bend, the equivalant of around 4.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Fort Bend County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
23,132	Retail trade
18,644	Health care and social assistance
16,733	Accommodation and food services
16,088	Food services and drinking places
15,214	Restaurants and other eating places
13,045	Manufacturing
10,000	Professional, scientific, and technical services
9,801	Ambulatory health care services
9,182	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
8,368	Administrative and support services
7,450	Full-service restaurants
6,841	Limited-service restaurants
5,593	Wholesale trade
5,312	Food and beverage stores
5,048	Grocery stores

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