The population of Garfield county is estimated at 58,906. In 2017 there were 827 births and 344 deaths in Garfield county. Garfield county has 10,513 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,904 that are owned free and clear and 6,942 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Garfield County filed 27,210 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.0% of all Colorado filings and 0.018% of the entire nation. Garfield had a combined total federal tax liability of $358,841,000 on earned income of $1,900,148,000. Other notable statistics from Garfield County were 1,010 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,961,000 and 6,040 charitable contributions valued at $34,713,000. 7,310 filings from Garfield County paid a combined total of $19,415,000 in property taxes and 6,690 filings paid $72,843,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Garfield county had 70 religious congregations with an estimated 15,502 members.
30.2% of the Garfield population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 45% of Garfield County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 2,633 votes.
At $71,897 the median income is 104.0% of the Colorado average. An estimated 915 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Garfield, the equivalant of around 2.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Garfield County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,982	Retail trade
2,727	Accommodation and food services
1,924	Food services and drinking places
1,843	Restaurants and other eating places
1,082	Full-service restaurants
1,074	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,035	Health care and social assistance
1,004	Professional, scientific, and technical services
803	Accommodation
794	Real estate and rental and leasing
783	Traveler accommodation
774	Hotels (except casino hotels) and motels
764	Transportation and warehousing
756	Ambulatory health care services
694	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.73% in Garfield County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 81650, 81601 and 81623).

In 2018 13.08% of listings in Garfield County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 81623, 81650, 81601, 81647 and 81635) dropped their price.

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