The population of Litchfield county is estimated at 183,097. In 2017 there were 1,423 births and 1,772 deaths in Litchfield county. Litchfield county has 42,758 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 15,697 that are owned free and clear and 18,185 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Litchfield County filed 94,220 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.4% of all Connecticut filings and 0.063% of the entire nation. Litchfield had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,202,592,000 on earned income of $7,237,723,000. Other notable statistics from Litchfield County were 5,030 unemployment claims which collected a total of $28,492,000 and 32,410 charitable contributions valued at $127,310,000. 37,390 filings from Litchfield County paid a combined total of $236,549,000 in property taxes and 30,760 filings paid $227,834,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Litchfield county had 176 religious congregations with an estimated 80,273 members.
35.0% of the Litchfield population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 53% of Litchfield County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 5,030 votes.
At $77,968 the median income is 104.8% of the Connecticut average. An estimated 4,556 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Litchfield, the equivalant of around 4.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Litchfield County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,500	Health care and social assistance
9,062	Manufacturing
8,669	Retail trade
4,426	Accommodation and food services
3,975	Food services and drinking places
3,631	Restaurants and other eating places
2,752	Ambulatory health care services
2,705	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
2,668	Food and beverage stores
2,386	Grocery stores
2,365	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
2,263	Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities)
2,129	Full-service restaurants
2,069	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,067	Nursing and residential care facilities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.76% in Litchfield County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 6779, 6795 and 6098).

In 2018 14.77% of listings in Litchfield County (averaging across 15 zip codes a sample of which are; 6791 and 6098) dropped their price.

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