The population of Jefferson county is estimated at 255,954. In 2017 there were 3,676 births and 2,554 deaths in Jefferson county. Jefferson county has 29,910 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 29,156 that are owned free and clear and 34,375 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Jefferson County filed 105,380 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.9% of all Texas filings and 0.071% of the entire nation. Jefferson had a combined total federal tax liability of $954,477,000 on earned income of $5,748,363,000. Other notable statistics from Jefferson County were 5,520 unemployment claims which collected a total of $26,235,000 and 17,550 charitable contributions valued at $120,563,000. 16,000 filings from Jefferson County paid a combined total of $70,592,000 in property taxes and 12,060 filings paid $72,343,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Jefferson county had 388 religious congregations with an estimated 195,963 members.
18.9% of the Jefferson population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 16.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 34% of Jefferson County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,185 votes.
At $47,852 the median income is 80.8% of the Texas average. An estimated 7,854 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Jefferson, the equivalant of around 7.3% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 7.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Jefferson County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
17,453	Health care and social assistance
13,877	Retail trade
13,123	Manufacturing
10,150	Accommodation and food services
9,407	Food services and drinking places
9,272	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
8,569	Restaurants and other eating places
8,492	Administrative and support services
8,256	Ambulatory health care services
5,909	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,602	Chemical manufacturing
4,587	Employment services
4,228	Full-service restaurants
4,198	Petroleum and coal products manufacturing
3,657	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.59% in Jefferson County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 77706, 77627, 77707, 77705 and 77619).

In 2018 15.23% of listings in Jefferson County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 77706, 77640, 77627, 77707 and 77619) dropped their price.

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