The population of Nueces county is estimated at 361,529. In 2017 there were 4,887 births and 2,924 deaths in Nueces county. Nueces county has 45,931 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 29,715 that are owned free and clear and 48,941 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Nueces County filed 150,780 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.2% of all Texas filings and 0.101% of the entire nation. Nueces had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,297,306,000 on earned income of $7,749,694,000. Other notable statistics from Nueces County were 6,450 unemployment claims which collected a total of $35,188,000 and 22,220 charitable contributions valued at $130,905,000. 22,570 filings from Nueces County paid a combined total of $116,876,000 in property taxes and 19,860 filings paid $133,678,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Nueces county had 353 religious congregations with an estimated 205,612 members.
20.9% of the Nueces population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 17.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 29% of Nueces County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 8,177 votes.
At $51,910 the median income is 87.7% of the Texas average. An estimated 9,028 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Nueces, the equivalant of around 5.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Nueces County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
28,174	Health care and social assistance
17,049	Accommodation and food services
17,030	Retail trade
14,808	Food services and drinking places
13,813	Ambulatory health care services
13,249	Restaurants and other eating places
12,213	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
11,457	Administrative and support services
7,070	Home health care services
7,063	Manufacturing
7,029	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
6,316	Limited-service restaurants
6,165	Full-service restaurants
5,789	Professional, scientific, and technical services
5,648	Hospitals

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.56% in Nueces County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 78412, 78418, 78414 and 78410).

In 2018 13.48% of listings in Nueces County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 78418, 78414, 78410 and 78413) dropped their price.

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