The population of Monterey county is estimated at 436,363 where 183,807 speak English exclusively and 2,588 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 6,316 births and 2,600 deaths in Monterey county. Monterey county has 47,779 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 16,298 that are owned free and clear and 61,869 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Monterey County filed 196,270 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.1% of all California filings and 0.132% of the entire nation. Monterey had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,959,909,000 on earned income of $12,577,916,000. Other notable statistics from Monterey County were 22,270 unemployment claims which collected a total of $115,062,000 and 44,950 charitable contributions valued at $238,033,000. 44,650 filings from Monterey County paid a combined total of $252,500,000 in property taxes and 38,600 filings paid $468,581,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Monterey county had 287 religious congregations with an estimated 205,066 members.
23.9% of the Monterey population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 28.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 16% of Monterey County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 7,661 votes.
At $70,294 the median income is 97.9% of the California average. An estimated 15,811 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Monterey, the equivalant of around 7.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 7.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Monterey County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
17,786	Accommodation and food services
16,335	Retail trade
14,898	Health care and social assistance
11,922	Food services and drinking places
11,054	Restaurants and other eating places
7,448	Professional, scientific, and technical services
6,394	Full-service restaurants
6,078	Manufacturing
5,864	Accommodation
5,826	Traveler accommodation
5,685	Ambulatory health care services
5,548	Hotels (except casino hotels) and motels
4,957	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,855	Hospitals
4,855	General medical and surgical hospitals

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.74% in Monterey County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 93923, 93924, 93950 and 93940).

In 2018 15.21% of listings in Monterey County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 93953, 93955, 93950, 93906 and 93907) dropped their price.

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