The population of Santa Barbara county is estimated at 446,296 where 238,937 speak English exclusively and 2,304 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 5,662 births and 3,182 deaths in Santa Barbara county. Santa Barbara county has 53,859 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 20,968 that are owned free and clear and 67,277 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Santa Barbara County filed 201,430 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.1% of all California filings and 0.135% of the entire nation. Santa Barbara had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,619,839,000 on earned income of $14,997,782,000. Other notable statistics from Santa Barbara County were 11,920 unemployment claims which collected a total of $54,177,000 and 52,450 charitable contributions valued at $338,256,000. 51,630 filings from Santa Barbara County paid a combined total of $336,750,000 in property taxes and 43,340 filings paid $560,103,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Santa Barbara county had 299 religious congregations with an estimated 201,791 members.
33.3% of the Santa Barbara population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 19.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 31% of Santa Barbara County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 7,883 votes.
At $70,651 the median income is 98.4% of the California average. An estimated 9,741 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Santa Barbara, the equivalant of around 4.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Santa Barbara County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
20,623	Accommodation and food services
20,279	Health care and social assistance
18,781	Retail trade
15,211	Food services and drinking places
14,038	Restaurants and other eating places
13,896	Manufacturing
9,785	Professional, scientific, and technical services
8,185	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
7,924	Ambulatory health care services
7,840	Full-service restaurants
7,763	Administrative and support services
5,429	Information
5,412	Accommodation
5,325	Wholesale trade
5,288	Traveler accommodation

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