The population of Alameda county is estimated at 1,653,236 where 817,782 speak English exclusively and 16,555 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 19,483 births and 10,786 deaths in Alameda county. Alameda county has 232,188 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 59,054 that are owned free and clear and 253,896 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Alameda County filed 784,180 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.4% of all California filings and 0.526% of the entire nation. Alameda had an astronomical combined total federal tax liability of $12,968,297,000 on earned income of $74,577,540,000. Other notable statistics from Alameda County were 40,610 unemployment claims which collected a total of $197,682,000 and 248,120 charitable contributions valued at $1,186,152,000. 236,910 filings from Alameda County paid a combined total of $1,752,320,000 in property taxes and 210,010 filings paid $2,822,841,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Alameda county had 1,091 religious congregations with an estimated 509,573 members.
44.7% of the Alameda population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 26% of Alameda County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 133,869 votes.
At $95,550 the median income is 133.1% of the California average. An estimated 30,902 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Alameda, the equivalant of around 3.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Alameda County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
85,709	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
82,709	Administrative and support services
82,510	Health care and social assistance
63,679	Manufacturing
61,372	Retail trade
60,272	Professional, scientific, and technical services
51,283	Accommodation and food services
46,380	Food services and drinking places
44,934	Wholesale trade
41,925	Restaurants and other eating places
33,851	Ambulatory health care services
27,935	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
25,606	Transportation and warehousing
22,470	Information
22,044	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 13.91% of listings in Alameda County (averaging across 21 zip codes a sample of which are; 94568, 94577, 94546, 94608 and 94541) dropped their price.

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