The population of Placer county is estimated at 379,742 where 285,025 speak English exclusively and 1,418 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 3,770 births and 3,263 deaths in Placer county. Placer county has 73,357 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 20,866 that are owned free and clear and 38,404 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Placer County filed 181,310 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.0% of all California filings and 0.122% of the entire nation. Placer had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,512,680,000 on earned income of $16,021,138,000. Other notable statistics from Placer County were 9,190 unemployment claims which collected a total of $44,365,000 and 74,240 charitable contributions valued at $315,025,000. 77,170 filings from Placer County paid a combined total of $423,495,000 in property taxes and 67,580 filings paid $759,831,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Placer county had 253 religious congregations with an estimated 133,715 members.
37.5% of the Placer population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 28% of Placer County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 21,168 votes.
At $81,366 the median income is 113.3% of the California average. An estimated 7,004 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Placer, the equivalant of around 3.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Placer County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
20,999	Retail trade
18,349	Health care and social assistance
18,063	Accommodation and food services
13,126	Food services and drinking places
12,802	Restaurants and other eating places
8,765	Ambulatory health care services
8,331	Finance and insurance
6,967	Full-service restaurants
6,699	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
6,425	Administrative and support services
6,059	Computer systems design and related services
4,937	Accommodation
4,915	Traveler accommodation
4,671	Other services (except public administration)
4,602	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.40% in Placer County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 95678, 95747, 95765, 95603 and 95648).

In 2018 18.59% of listings in Placer County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 96146, 95603, 96145, 95765 and 95678) dropped their price.

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