The population of Clayton county is estimated at 280,006. In 2017 there were 4,127 births and 1,733 deaths in Clayton county. Clayton county has 43,688 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,042 that are owned free and clear and 38,903 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Clayton County filed 126,510 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.9% of all Georgia filings and 0.085% of the entire nation. Clayton had a combined total federal tax liability of $616,781,000 on earned income of $4,205,239,000. Other notable statistics from Clayton County were 3,270 unemployment claims which collected a total of $9,576,000 and 28,150 charitable contributions valued at $162,338,000. 20,740 filings from Clayton County paid a combined total of $35,190,000 in property taxes and 20,220 filings paid $107,188,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Clayton county had 189 religious congregations with an estimated 115,088 members.
19.1% of the Clayton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 32% of Clayton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 6,784 votes.
At $44,757 the median income is 79.8% of the Georgia average. An estimated 7,868 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Clayton, the equivalant of around 5.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Clayton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
14,592	Transportation and warehousing
10,921	Retail trade
8,178	Accommodation and food services
7,250	Food services and drinking places
7,024	Health care and social assistance
6,393	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
6,102	Wholesale trade
6,087	Administrative and support services
5,428	Support activities for transportation
4,319	Truck transportation
4,072	General freight trucking
3,957	Employment services
3,844	General freight trucking, long-distance
3,676	Manufacturing
3,608	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.04% in Clayton County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 30296, 30260 and 30238).

In 2018 11.76% of listings in Clayton County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 30349 and 30238) dropped their price.

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