The population of Saint Lucie county is estimated at 306,079. In 2017 there were 3,096 births and 3,348 deaths in Saint Lucie county. Saint Lucie county has 53,447 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 27,319 that are owned free and clear and 27,757 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Saint Lucie County filed 142,070 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.5% of all Florida filings and 0.095% of the entire nation. Saint Lucie had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,066,214,000 on earned income of $7,029,673,000. Other notable statistics from Saint Lucie County were 3,020 unemployment claims which collected a total of $10,604,000 and 25,270 charitable contributions valued at $114,133,000. 26,220 filings from Saint Lucie County paid a combined total of $113,699,000 in property taxes and 21,940 filings paid $155,517,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Saint Lucie county had 213 religious congregations with an estimated 79,604 members.
19.6% of the Saint Lucie population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 46% of Saint Lucie County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 17,705 votes.
At $49,995 the median income is 95.1% of the Florida average. An estimated 7,000 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Saint Lucie, the equivalant of around 5.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Saint Lucie County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
12,368	Retail trade
10,230	Health care and social assistance
6,652	Accommodation and food services
5,953	Food services and drinking places
5,564	Restaurants and other eating places
4,476	Ambulatory health care services
3,414	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,225	Administrative and support services
3,195	Nonstore retailers
3,161	Full-service restaurants
2,205	Limited-service restaurants
2,173	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,092	Food and beverage stores
2,015	Manufacturing
1,877	Grocery stores

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