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  The population of Leon county is estimated at 287,074. In 2017 there were 2,995 births and 1,855 deaths in Leon county. Leon county has 44,743 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 15,650 that are owned free and clear and 50,552 that are renter occupied.


  The gracious residents of Leon County filed 124,970 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.3% of all Florida filings and 0.084% of the entire nation. Leon had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,218,575,000 on earned income of $7,515,859,000. Other notable statistics from Leon County were 1,120 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,167,000 and 24,240 charitable contributions valued at $166,077,000. 24,640 filings from Leon County paid a combined total of $91,071,000 in property taxes and 21,010 filings paid $175,936,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Leon county had 274 religious congregations with an estimated 130,227 members.

45.5% of the Leon population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 6.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.


About 53% of Leon County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 3,590 votes.

At $51,716 the median income is 98.4% of the Florida average. An estimated 5,893 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Leon, the equivalant of around 3.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.5%.


Top 15 Industries in Leon County.
Total # EmployedIndustry Job Type
16,817Health care and social assistance
15,309Retail trade
13,783Accommodation and food services
12,520Food services and drinking places
11,176Professional, scientific, and technical services
11,002Restaurants and other eating places
6,287Ambulatory health care services
5,487Full-service restaurants
5,209Hospitals
4,804Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,797Limited-service restaurants
4,618Administrative and support services
4,445Other services (except public administration)
4,348Finance and insurance
3,395General merchandise stores


In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.32% in Leon County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 32317, 32311, 32310, 32308 and 32304).

In 2018 13.83% of listings in Leon County (averaging across 10 zip codes a sample of which are; 32310, 32303, 32309, 32311 and 32305) dropped their price.


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