The population of Butte county is estimated at 226,525. In 2017 there were 2,473 births and 2,373 deaths in Butte county. Butte county has 33,742 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 17,249 that are owned free and clear and 36,627 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Butte County filed 93,910 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.5% of all California filings and 0.063% of the entire nation. Butte had a combined total federal tax liability of $735,868,000 on earned income of $5,194,924,000. Other notable statistics from Butte County were 6,970 unemployment claims which collected a total of $30,548,000 and 20,860 charitable contributions valued at $92,058,000. 23,500 filings from Butte County paid a combined total of $76,011,000 in property taxes and 20,060 filings paid $175,545,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Butte county had 202 religious congregations with an estimated 74,981 members.
26.6% of the Butte population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 32% of Butte County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 2,136 votes.
At $48,634 the median income is 67.7% of the California average. An estimated 5,916 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Butte, the equivalant of around 5.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Butte County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
12,868	Health care and social assistance
9,231	Retail trade
7,091	Accommodation and food services
6,246	Food services and drinking places
5,737	Restaurants and other eating places
4,723	Hospitals
4,723	General medical and surgical hospitals
4,723	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
4,126	Manufacturing
3,677	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,456	Ambulatory health care services
3,437	Administrative and support services
2,601	Limited-service restaurants
2,563	Full-service restaurants
2,394	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.10% in Butte County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 95926, 95969, 95973, 95966 and 95954).

In 2018 7.51% of listings in Butte County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 95928, 95926, 95965, 95973 and 95969) dropped their price.

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