The population of Whatcom county is estimated at 216,274. In 2017 there were 2,373 births and 1,636 deaths in Whatcom county. Whatcom county has 35,130 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 14,775 that are owned free and clear and 30,465 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Whatcom County filed 102,600 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.9% of all Washington filings and 0.069% of the entire nation. Whatcom had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,004,188,000 on earned income of $6,509,421,000. Other notable statistics from Whatcom County were 4,690 unemployment claims which collected a total of $23,294,000 and 21,880 charitable contributions valued at $114,065,000. 25,910 filings from Whatcom County paid a combined total of $103,977,000 in property taxes and 22,300 filings paid $211,765,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Whatcom county had 185 religious congregations with an estimated 58,182 members.
33.8% of the Whatcom population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 48% of Whatcom County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 13,083 votes.
At $61,026 the median income is 86.0% of the Washington average. An estimated 5,514 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Whatcom, the equivalant of around 5.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Whatcom County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
11,310	Retail trade
9,901	Health care and social assistance
9,613	Manufacturing
8,282	Accommodation and food services
6,731	Food services and drinking places
5,725	Restaurants and other eating places
3,651	Ambulatory health care services
3,293	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,119	Full-service restaurants
2,805	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,447	Administrative and support services
2,330	General merchandise stores
2,282	Other services (except public administration)
2,260	Transportation and warehousing
2,188	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.32% in Whatcom County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 98230, 98248, 98226, 98225 and 98264).

In 2018 13.56% of listings in Whatcom County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 98244, 98225, 98229, 98230 and 98264) dropped their price.

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