The population of Merced county is estimated at 268,878. In 2017 there were 4,073 births and 1,703 deaths in Merced county. Merced county has 30,870 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 10,326 that are owned free and clear and 34,446 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Merced County filed 102,870 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.6% of all California filings and 0.069% of the entire nation. Merced had a combined total federal tax liability of $636,079,000 on earned income of $4,662,964,000. Other notable statistics from Merced County were 13,460 unemployment claims which collected a total of $61,525,000 and 17,460 charitable contributions valued at $65,169,000. 18,420 filings from Merced County paid a combined total of $53,399,000 in property taxes and 16,700 filings paid $136,829,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Merced county had 192 religious congregations with an estimated 139,353 members.
13.8% of the Merced population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 31.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 16% of Merced County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 8,015 votes.
At $48,036 the median income is 66.9% of the California average. An estimated 10,801 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Merced, the equivalant of around 9.3% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 10.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Merced County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,973	Manufacturing
7,787	Food manufacturing
7,497	Retail trade
6,718	Health care and social assistance
4,585	Accommodation and food services
4,381	Food services and drinking places
4,281	Restaurants and other eating places
3,275	Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing
3,120	Ambulatory health care services
2,526	Limited-service restaurants
2,485	Animal slaughtering and processing
2,033	Transportation and warehousing
2,006	General merchandise stores
1,635	Wholesale trade
1,508	Dairy product manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.19% in Merced County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 95340 and 95301).

In 2018 18.11% of listings in Merced County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 95301, 95348, 95340, 95341 and 93635) dropped their price.

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