Fairfield County is the richest county in Connecticut. Bridgeport is the largest city located within this county.
  The population of Fairfield county is estimated at 949,191 where 624,825 speak English exclusively and 7,254 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 9,921 births and 6,774 deaths in Fairfield county. Fairfield county has 171,695 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 58,472 that are owned free and clear and 105,378 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Fairfield County filed 459,130 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 26.2% of all Connecticut filings and 0.308% of the entire nation. Fairfield had an astronomical combined total federal tax liability of $16,813,317,000 on earned income of $69,396,242,000. Other notable statistics from Fairfield County were 17,790 unemployment claims which collected a total of $111,626,000 and 180,240 charitable contributions valued at $1,890,111,000. 181,460 filings from Fairfield County paid a combined total of $1,988,603,000 in property taxes and 145,280 filings paid $1,735,429,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Fairfield county had 654 religious congregations with an estimated 579,693 members.
46.5% of the Fairfield population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 43% of Fairfield County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 19,668 votes.
At $91,170 the median income is 122.5% of the Connecticut average. An estimated 21,873 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Fairfield, 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 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Fairfield County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
63,963	Health care and social assistance
49,401	Retail trade
42,413	Finance and insurance
40,694	Professional, scientific, and technical services
35,507	Manufacturing
34,040	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
32,619	Administrative and support services
30,574	Accommodation and food services
27,745	Food services and drinking places
24,864	Ambulatory health care services
23,655	Restaurants and other eating places
18,611	Wholesale trade
18,019	Securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investments and related activities
13,894	Full-service restaurants
13,218	Information

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.69% in Fairfield County (averaging across 33 zip codes a sample of which are; 6604 and 6877).

In 2018 13.69% of listings in Fairfield County (averaging across 39 zip codes a sample of which are; 6482, 6484 and 6883) dropped their price.

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