The population of Santa Cruz county is estimated at 275,196. In 2017 there were 2,808 births and 1,923 deaths in Santa Cruz county. Santa Cruz county has 40,473 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,756 that are owned free and clear and 40,126 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Santa Cruz County filed 130,730 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.7% of all California filings and 0.088% of the entire nation. Santa Cruz had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,795,220,000 on earned income of $10,640,399,000. Other notable statistics from Santa Cruz County were 10,110 unemployment claims which collected a total of $53,820,000 and 38,610 charitable contributions valued at $155,088,000. 39,810 filings from Santa Cruz County paid a combined total of $250,659,000 in property taxes and 33,710 filings paid $452,389,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Santa Cruz county had 184 religious congregations with an estimated 81,322 members.
39.8% of the Santa Cruz population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 29% of Santa Cruz County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,021 votes.
At $76,633 the median income is 106.8% of the California average. An estimated 8,154 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Santa Cruz, the equivalant of around 5.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 7.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Santa Cruz County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
12,989	Health care and social assistance
11,120	Retail trade
10,032	Accommodation and food services
8,508	Food services and drinking places
7,923	Restaurants and other eating places
5,614	Wholesale trade
4,930	Ambulatory health care services
4,479	Manufacturing
4,268	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,245	Full-service restaurants
3,505	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
3,392	Food and beverage stores
3,199	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,038	Grocery stores
2,975	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores

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