The population of Palm Beach county is estimated at 1,453,768 where 907,740 speak English exclusively and 9,643 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 15,013 births and 15,169 deaths in Palm Beach county. Palm Beach county has 249,941 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 138,552 that are owned free and clear and 155,734 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Palm Beach County filed 699,710 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 7.2% of all Florida filings and 0.469% of the entire nation. Palm Beach had an astronomical combined total federal tax liability of $14,250,056,000 on earned income of $62,677,200,000. Other notable statistics from Palm Beach County were 10,400 unemployment claims which collected a total of $33,805,000 and 178,880 charitable contributions valued at $1,919,872,000. 173,310 filings from Palm Beach County paid a combined total of $1,338,210,000 in property taxes and 134,330 filings paid $1,276,021,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Palm Beach county had 775 religious congregations with an estimated 483,715 members.
34.8% of the Palm Beach population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 45% of Palm Beach County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 56,894 votes.
At $60,059 the median income is 114.2% of the Florida average. An estimated 29,486 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Palm Beach, the equivalant of around 4.1% 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 Palm Beach County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
125,460	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
124,358	Administrative and support services
75,097	Health care and social assistance
69,625	Retail trade
57,739	Accommodation and food services
47,898	Food services and drinking places
44,384	Restaurants and other eating places
36,924	Professional, scientific, and technical services
33,762	Ambulatory health care services
28,556	Full-service restaurants
22,862	Finance and insurance
18,011	Other services (except public administration)
18,007	Hospitals
16,628	Arts, entertainment, and recreation
16,394	Nursing and residential care facilities

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