The population of Galveston county is estimated at 329,306. In 2017 there were 4,269 births and 2,857 deaths in Galveston county. Galveston county has 50,304 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 24,640 that are owned free and clear and 34,025 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Galveston County filed 147,420 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.2% of all Texas filings and 0.099% of the entire nation. Galveston had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,778,519,000 on earned income of $10,465,838,000. Other notable statistics from Galveston County were 5,900 unemployment claims which collected a total of $32,760,000 and 33,250 charitable contributions valued at $181,825,000. 35,320 filings from Galveston County paid a combined total of $219,564,000 in property taxes and 30,980 filings paid $233,120,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Galveston county had 299 religious congregations with an estimated 157,705 members.
29.5% of the Galveston population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 38% of Galveston County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 14,767 votes.
At $69,674 the median income is 117.7% of the Texas average. An estimated 8,412 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Galveston, the equivalant of around 5.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Galveston County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
14,121	Accommodation and food services
12,280	Health care and social assistance
11,477	Food services and drinking places
11,165	Retail trade
10,369	Restaurants and other eating places
6,889	Professional, scientific, and technical services
6,236	Manufacturing
5,831	Full-service restaurants
4,009	Limited-service restaurants
3,824	Architectural, engineering, and related services
3,797	Finance and insurance
3,503	Engineering services
3,315	Ambulatory health care services
3,208	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,004	Petroleum and coal products manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.66% in Galveston County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 77510, 77573, 77565, 77546 and 77539).

In 2018 14.05% of listings in Galveston County (averaging across 14 zip codes a sample of which are; 77554, 77650, 77550, 77568 and 77590) dropped their price.

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