The population of Okaloosa county is estimated at 199,915. In 2017 there were 2,772 births and 1,829 deaths in Okaloosa county. Okaloosa county has 32,404 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 14,691 that are owned free and clear and 25,284 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Okaloosa County filed 100,230 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.0% of all Florida filings and 0.067% of the entire nation. Okaloosa had a combined total federal tax liability of $953,977,000 on earned income of $5,924,932,000. Other notable statistics from Okaloosa County were 1,100 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,010,000 and 15,930 charitable contributions valued at $112,774,000. 17,340 filings from Okaloosa County paid a combined total of $58,565,000 in property taxes and 15,200 filings paid $138,548,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Okaloosa county had 222 religious congregations with an estimated 86,390 members.
29.8% of the Okaloosa population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 50% of Okaloosa County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 5,918 votes.
At $60,798 the median income is 115.6% of the Florida average. An estimated 3,237 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Okaloosa, the equivalant of around 3.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Okaloosa County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
11,216	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
11,135	Retail trade
11,015	Administrative and support services
10,900	Accommodation and food services
9,791	Food services and drinking places
9,270	Restaurants and other eating places
8,769	Professional employer organizations
8,715	Health care and social assistance
6,033	Professional, scientific, and technical services
5,771	Full-service restaurants
3,334	Ambulatory health care services
3,013	Limited-service restaurants
2,719	Manufacturing
2,412	Finance and insurance
2,183	Computer systems design and related services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.23% in Okaloosa County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 32579, 32541, 32548, 32547 and 32536).

In 2018 16.03% of listings in Okaloosa County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 32547, 32569, 32579, 32539 and 32548) dropped their price.

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