The population of San Luis Obispo county is estimated at 282,282. In 2017 there were 2,644 births and 2,359 deaths in San Luis Obispo county. San Luis Obispo county has 43,229 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 17,691 that are owned free and clear and 41,096 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of San Luis Obispo County filed 131,340 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.7% of all California filings and 0.088% of the entire nation. San Luis Obispo had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,396,331,000 on earned income of $9,334,548,000. Other notable statistics from San Luis Obispo County were 6,080 unemployment claims which collected a total of $27,807,000 and 42,150 charitable contributions valued at $193,791,000. 44,130 filings from San Luis Obispo County paid a combined total of $229,471,000 in property taxes and 36,810 filings paid $429,476,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 San Luis Obispo county had 263 religious congregations with an estimated 145,470 members.
34.0% of the San Luis Obispo population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 38% of San Luis Obispo County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 11,576 votes.
At $70,634 the median income is 98.4% of the California average. An estimated 5,089 people claimed to be unemployed last year in San Luis Obispo, the equivalant of around 3.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.3%.

Top 15 Industries in San Luis Obispo County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
14,254	Accommodation and food services
14,086	Health care and social assistance
13,992	Retail trade
10,736	Food services and drinking places
9,995	Restaurants and other eating places
6,107	Manufacturing
5,714	Full-service restaurants
5,190	Ambulatory health care services
4,914	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,504	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,282	Hospitals
4,002	Administrative and support services
3,518	Accommodation
3,363	Limited-service restaurants
3,319	Traveler accommodation

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