The population of Pierce county is estimated at 859,752 where 638,938 speak English exclusively and 3,744 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 11,778 births and 6,936 deaths in Pierce county. Pierce county has 148,662 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 40,418 that are owned free and clear and 110,838 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Pierce County filed 409,920 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 11.7% of all Washington filings and 0.275% of the entire nation. Pierce had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $4,058,412,000 on earned income of $26,829,643,000. Other notable statistics from Pierce County were 18,270 unemployment claims which collected a total of $95,104,000 and 99,490 charitable contributions valued at $429,551,000. 116,470 filings from Pierce County paid a combined total of $522,462,000 in property taxes and 106,390 filings paid $1,001,271,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Pierce county had 644 religious congregations with an estimated 280,373 members.
26.0% of the Pierce population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 35% of Pierce County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 33,664 votes.
At $69,027 the median income is 97.3% of the Washington average. An estimated 22,377 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Pierce, 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 6.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Pierce County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
43,245	Health care and social assistance
33,111	Retail trade
22,535	Accommodation and food services
20,122	Food services and drinking places
18,661	Restaurants and other eating places
16,027	Manufacturing
14,905	Ambulatory health care services
13,645	Hospitals
13,645	General medical and surgical hospitals
13,352	Transportation and warehousing
12,234	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
11,190	Administrative and support services
9,784	Finance and insurance
9,464	Professional, scientific, and technical services
9,171	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.76% in Pierce County (averaging across 27 zip codes a sample of which are; 98498, 98499, 98371, 98405 and 98387).

In 2018 15.16% of listings in Pierce County (averaging across 35 zip codes a sample of which are; 98371, 98405, 98406, 98375 and 98391) dropped their price.

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