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  Santa Clara County is the richest county in California. San Jose is the largest city located within this county. Moreover, this county is among the top ten richest in the nation.
  The population of Santa Clara county is estimated at 1,931,575 where 823,890 speak English exclusively and 19,267 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 23,101 births and 11,030 deaths in Santa Clara county. Santa Clara county has 271,197 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 77,101 that are owned free and clear and 255,906 that are renter occupied.


  The upstanding residents of Santa Clara County filed 916,070 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.1% of all California filings and 0.614% of the entire nation. Santa Clara had an astronomical combined total federal tax liability of $28,945,980,000 on earned income of $141,949,301,000. Other notable statistics from Santa Clara County were 45,390 unemployment claims which collected a total of $228,852,000 and 317,460 charitable contributions valued at $8,578,812,000. 294,040 filings from Santa Clara County paid a combined total of $2,861,945,000 in property taxes and 250,930 filings paid $3,785,736,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Santa Clara county had 927 religious congregations with an estimated 776,028 members.

50.0% of the Santa Clara population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.


About 29% of Santa Clara County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 61,649 votes.

At $118,468 the median income is 165.0% of the California average. An estimated 33,415 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Santa Clara, the equivalant of around 3.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.8%.


Top 15 Industries in Santa Clara County.
Total # EmployedIndustry Job Type
125,395Professional, scientific, and technical services
100,981Manufacturing
99,127Health care and social assistance
84,304Wholesale trade
84,158Retail trade
78,161Information
77,207Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
72,491Accommodation and food services
66,466Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
64,704Food services and drinking places
63,805Administrative and support services
57,128Restaurants and other eating places
36,750Ambulatory health care services
31,506Software publishers
31,162Employment services


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