The population of Sacramento county is estimated at 1,513,260 where 918,792 speak English exclusively and 9,113 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 19,385 births and 11,843 deaths in Sacramento county. Sacramento county has 235,049 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 60,433 that are owned free and clear and 218,463 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Sacramento County filed 681,990 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.8% of all California filings and 0.457% of the entire nation. Sacramento had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $6,184,900,000 on earned income of $42,195,964,000. Other notable statistics from Sacramento County were 38,600 unemployment claims which collected a total of $169,948,000 and 188,530 charitable contributions valued at $700,217,000. 194,600 filings from Sacramento County paid a combined total of $787,185,000 in property taxes and 176,890 filings paid $1,669,811,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Sacramento county had 876 religious congregations with an estimated 525,985 members.
29.9% of the Sacramento population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 25% of Sacramento County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 14,657 votes.
At $62,959 the median income is 87.7% of the California average. An estimated 32,580 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Sacramento, the equivalant of around 4.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Sacramento County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
77,506	Health care and social assistance
55,910	Retail trade
44,722	Accommodation and food services
40,397	Food services and drinking places
37,216	Restaurants and other eating places
34,276	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
33,339	Administrative and support services
32,572	Professional, scientific, and technical services
29,658	Ambulatory health care services
25,279	Finance and insurance
23,454	General medical and surgical hospitals
19,902	Manufacturing
17,884	Full-service restaurants
17,066	Information
16,184	Other services (except public administration)

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.70% in Sacramento County (averaging across 14 zip codes a sample of which are; 95624, 95630, 95843, 95838 and 95758).

In 2018 20.03% of listings in Sacramento County (averaging across 32 zip codes a sample of which are; 95662, 95834, 95630, 95670 and 95864) dropped their price.

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