The population of Madera county is estimated at 154,966. In 2017 there were 2,181 births and 1,004 deaths in Madera county. Madera county has 19,961 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 7,765 that are owned free and clear and 15,591 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Madera County filed 58,630 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.3% of all California filings and 0.039% of the entire nation. Madera had a combined total federal tax liability of $385,832,000 on earned income of $2,882,448,000. Other notable statistics from Madera County were 6,250 unemployment claims which collected a total of $26,743,000 and 12,090 charitable contributions valued at $47,272,000. 12,700 filings from Madera County paid a combined total of $36,057,000 in property taxes and 11,370 filings paid $92,056,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Madera county had 126 religious congregations with an estimated 79,953 members.
13.8% of the Madera population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 28.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 22% of Madera County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,891 votes.
At $50,783 the median income is 70.7% of the California average. An estimated 4,949 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Madera, the equivalant of around 8.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 9.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Madera County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
5,871	Health care and social assistance
3,455	Retail trade
3,298	Manufacturing
2,461	Accommodation and food services
1,985	Food services and drinking places
1,929	Restaurants and other eating places
1,519	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,398	Administrative and support services
1,145	Limited-service restaurants
1,093	Food and beverage stores
1,020	Grocery stores
984	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
910	Employment services
910	Temporary help services
815	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.29% in Madera County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 93610, 93614, 93644 and 93637).

In 2018 14.33% of listings in Madera County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 93604, 93644, 93636, 93610 and 93614) dropped their price.

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