The population of Washington county is estimated at 227,600. In 2017 there were 3,240 births and 1,531 deaths in Washington county. Washington county has 30,377 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,387 that are owned free and clear and 33,625 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Washington County filed 96,340 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 7.9% of all Arkansas filings and 0.065% of the entire nation. Washington had a combined total federal tax liability of $944,984,000 on earned income of $5,728,697,000. Other notable statistics from Washington County were 2,140 unemployment claims which collected a total of $8,491,000 and 18,030 charitable contributions valued at $135,746,000. 19,450 filings from Washington County paid a combined total of $44,795,000 in property taxes and 17,170 filings paid $125,436,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Washington county had 275 religious congregations with an estimated 115,249 members.
31.9% of the Washington population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 34% of Washington County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 7,922 votes.
At $50,400 the median income is 109.8% of the Arkansas average. An estimated 3,097 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Washington, the equivalant of around 2.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 2.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Washington County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
14,228	Health care and social assistance
12,207	Manufacturing
11,098	Retail trade
9,220	Accommodation and food services
8,513	Food services and drinking places
7,857	Restaurants and other eating places
5,430	Food manufacturing
4,827	Ambulatory health care services
4,404	General medical and surgical hospitals
4,228	Truck transportation
3,825	Animal slaughtering and processing
3,825	Poultry processing
3,812	Full-service restaurants
3,464	Limited-service restaurants
3,044	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.11% in Washington County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 72704, 72764, 72762 and 72701).

In 2018 15.37% of listings in Washington County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 72730, 72701, 72703, 72762 and 72764) dropped their price.

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