The population of El Dorado county is estimated at 186,272. In 2017 there were 1,587 births and 1,635 deaths in El Dorado county. El Dorado county has 39,037 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,354 that are owned free and clear and 18,832 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of El Dorado County filed 89,470 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.5% of all California filings and 0.060% of the entire nation. El Dorado had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,252,971,000 on earned income of $7,775,719,000. Other notable statistics from El Dorado County were 5,150 unemployment claims which collected a total of $25,388,000 and 34,420 charitable contributions valued at $146,202,000. 36,480 filings from El Dorado County paid a combined total of $181,083,000 in property taxes and 31,950 filings paid $359,374,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 El Dorado county had 118 religious congregations with an estimated 52,016 members.
33.3% of the El Dorado population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 38% of El Dorado County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 16,071 votes.
At $78,464 the median income is 109.3% of the California average. An estimated 3,920 people claimed to be unemployed last year in El Dorado, the equivalant of around 4.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.1%.

Top 15 Industries in El Dorado County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,504	Health care and social assistance
5,841	Retail trade
5,565	Accommodation and food services
4,203	Arts, entertainment, and recreation
4,145	Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries
4,098	Restaurants and other eating places
3,014	Finance and insurance
2,556	Full-service restaurants
2,415	Manufacturing
2,407	Ambulatory health care services
2,208	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,903	Food and beverage stores
1,770	Grocery stores
1,756	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,673	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores

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