The population of Wharton county is estimated at 41,634. In 2017 there were 588 births and 413 deaths in Wharton county. Wharton county has 4,567 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,736 that are owned free and clear and 4,829 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Wharton County filed 18,990 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all Texas filings and 0.013% of the entire nation. Wharton had a combined total federal tax liability of $149,629,000 on earned income of $929,562,000. Other notable statistics from Wharton County were 760 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,107,000 and 2,400 charitable contributions valued at $13,961,000. 2,300 filings from Wharton County paid a combined total of $10,363,000 in property taxes and 1,640 filings paid $10,816,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Wharton county had 84 religious congregations with an estimated 33,492 members.
15.0% of the Wharton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 21.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 35% of Wharton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 620 votes.
At $46,194 the median income is 78.0% of the Texas average. An estimated 940 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Wharton, the equivalant of around 4.5% 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 Wharton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,374	Health care and social assistance
1,999	Retail trade
1,513	Manufacturing
1,092	Ambulatory health care services
948	Accommodation and food services
909	Food services and drinking places
890	Wholesale trade
883	Restaurants and other eating places
637	Hospitals
560	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
556	Limited-service restaurants
533	Food and beverage stores
488	Grocery stores
469	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
415	Finance and insurance

In 2018 10.35% of listings in Wharton County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 77488 and 77437) dropped their price.

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