The population of Newport News City county is estimated at 180,388. In 2017 there were 2,719 births and 1,500 deaths in Newport News City county. Newport News City county has 27,909 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,167 that are owned free and clear and 34,588 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Newport News City County filed 84,080 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.2% of all Virginia filings and 0.056% of the entire nation. Newport News City had a combined total federal tax liability of $583,715,000 on earned income of $4,021,129,000. Other notable statistics from Newport News City County were 2,130 unemployment claims which collected a total of $8,062,000 and 18,410 charitable contributions valued at $81,888,000. 18,980 filings from Newport News City County paid a combined total of $55,384,000 in property taxes and 17,380 filings paid $123,500,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Newport News City county had 164 religious congregations with an estimated 67,384 members.
24.8% of the Newport News City population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 38% of Newport News City voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 10,737 votes.
At $49,635 the median income is 69.4% of the Virginia average. An estimated 4,191 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Newport News City, the equivalant of around 4.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Newport News City County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
26,503	Manufacturing
13,476	Health care and social assistance
9,879	Retail trade
6,621	Accommodation and food services
6,129	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
5,978	Food services and drinking places
5,747	Restaurants and other eating places
5,501	Ambulatory health care services
4,971	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,318	Hospitals
3,397	Employment services
2,922	Full-service restaurants
2,624	Offices of physicians
2,464	Limited-service restaurants
2,299	Nursing and residential care facilities

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