The population of Polk county is estimated at 667,018. In 2017 there were 7,779 births and 6,773 deaths in Polk county. Polk county has 98,855 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 61,587 that are owned free and clear and 67,043 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Polk County filed 291,930 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.0% of all Florida filings and 0.196% of the entire nation. Polk had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,100,215,000 on earned income of $13,819,951,000. Other notable statistics from Polk County were 4,500 unemployment claims which collected a total of $14,402,000 and 38,530 charitable contributions valued at $248,989,000. 38,370 filings from Polk County paid a combined total of $116,869,000 in property taxes and 33,370 filings paid $241,429,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Polk county had 676 religious congregations with an estimated 244,720 members.
19.5% of the Polk population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 43% of Polk County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 35,170 votes.
At $48,328 the median income is 91.9% of the Florida average. An estimated 13,643 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Polk, the equivalant of around 4.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Polk County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
27,066	Health care and social assistance
22,988	Retail trade
16,917	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
16,065	Administrative and support services
15,188	Accommodation and food services
14,200	Manufacturing
13,277	Food services and drinking places
12,681	Restaurants and other eating places
12,465	Transportation and warehousing
11,222	Finance and insurance
9,709	Employment services
9,625	Ambulatory health care services
8,839	General medical and surgical hospitals
8,839	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
8,386	Insurance carriers and related activities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.02% in Polk County (averaging across 20 zip codes a sample of which are; 33810, 33897, 33813, 33801 and 33830).

In 2018 21.16% of listings in Polk County (averaging across 23 zip codes a sample of which are; 33898, 33880, 33803 and 33837) dropped their price.

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