Douglas County is the richest county in Colorado. Castle Rock is the largest city located within this county. Moreover, this county is among the top ten richest in the nation.
  The population of Douglas county is estimated at 327,722. In 2017 there were 3,478 births and 1,396 deaths in Douglas county. Douglas county has 73,411 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,819 that are owned free and clear and 19,788 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Douglas County filed 155,970 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.9% of all Colorado filings and 0.105% of the entire nation. Douglas had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,172,965,000 on earned income of $18,176,256,000. Other notable statistics from Douglas County were 4,120 unemployment claims which collected a total of $24,540,000 and 71,820 charitable contributions valued at $380,263,000. 75,920 filings from Douglas County paid a combined total of $276,553,000 in property taxes and 71,430 filings paid $792,319,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Douglas county had 136 religious congregations with an estimated 100,018 members.
58.0% of the Douglas population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 2.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 56% of Douglas County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 32,758 votes.
At $112,386 the median income is 162.6% of the Colorado average. An estimated 4,381 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Douglas, the equivalant of around 2.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 2.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Douglas County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
15,688	Retail trade
10,295	Accommodation and food services
10,273	Professional, scientific, and technical services
9,513	Food services and drinking places
9,226	Restaurants and other eating places
8,339	Health care and social assistance
8,220	Information
7,659	Finance and insurance
7,158	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
6,942	Administrative and support services
5,537	Credit intermediation and related activities
5,514	Telecommunications
5,199	Full-service restaurants
3,985	Ambulatory health care services
3,449	Activities related to credit intermediation

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.67% in Douglas County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 80108, 80130, 80109, 80104 and 80129).

In 2018 17.80% of listings in Douglas County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 80134, 80108, 80138, 80135 and 80109) dropped their price.

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