The population of Hartford county is estimated at 895,497 where 638,077 speak English exclusively and 8,477 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 9,107 births and 8,063 deaths in Hartford county. Hartford county has 167,361 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 62,559 that are owned free and clear and 120,934 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Hartford County filed 445,100 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 25.4% of all Connecticut filings and 0.299% of the entire nation. Hartford had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $5,827,548,000 on earned income of $33,846,931,000. Other notable statistics from Hartford County were 20,960 unemployment claims which collected a total of $123,717,000 and 148,750 charitable contributions valued at $512,992,000. 164,170 filings from Hartford County paid a combined total of $1,117,228,000 in property taxes and 133,320 filings paid $927,670,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Hartford county had 630 religious congregations with an estimated 442,638 members.
37.4% of the Hartford population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 45% of Hartford County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 6,734 votes.
At $70,433 the median income is 94.6% of the Connecticut average. An estimated 23,305 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Hartford, the equivalant of around 4.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Hartford County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
79,917	Health care and social assistance
58,116	Finance and insurance
57,332	Manufacturing
49,862	Retail trade
46,572	Insurance carriers and related activities
41,814	Insurance carriers
32,877	Accommodation and food services
30,332	Direct life, health, and medical insurance carriers
30,111	Food services and drinking places
26,865	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
26,427	Professional, scientific, and technical services
26,368	Restaurants and other eating places
25,971	Ambulatory health care services
24,928	Administrative and support services
23,937	Transportation equipment manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.48% in Hartford County (averaging across 30 zip codes a sample of which are; ).

In 2018 18.92% of listings in Hartford County (averaging across 34 zip codes a sample of which are; 6073) dropped their price.

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