The population of San Benito county is estimated at 59,335. In 2017 there were 725 births and 330 deaths in San Benito county. San Benito county has 8,787 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,140 that are owned free and clear and 5,878 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of San Benito County filed 28,020 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all California filings and 0.019% of the entire nation. San Benito had a combined total federal tax liability of $282,465,000 on earned income of $1,929,232,000. Other notable statistics from San Benito County were 2,710 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,537,000 and 7,970 charitable contributions valued at $24,240,000. 8,580 filings from San Benito County paid a combined total of $44,286,000 in property taxes and 7,940 filings paid $100,179,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 San Benito county had 32 religious congregations with an estimated 35,690 members.
19.2% of the San Benito population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 20.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 20% of San Benito County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 3,214 votes.
At $77,200 the median income is 107.5% of the California average. An estimated 1,765 people claimed to be unemployed last year in San Benito, the equivalant of around 5.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.8%.

Top 15 Industries in San Benito County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,222	Manufacturing
1,309	Health care and social assistance
1,276	Retail trade
925	Accommodation and food services
895	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
871	Food services and drinking places
856	Restaurants and other eating places
702	Administrative and support services
683	Food manufacturing
638	Wholesale trade
535	Food and beverage stores
509	Grocery stores
501	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
473	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
470	Limited-service restaurants

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