The population of Scott county is estimated at 172,045. In 2017 there were 2,171 births and 1,449 deaths in Scott county. Scott county has 33,272 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,381 that are owned free and clear and 20,112 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Scott County filed 81,650 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.6% of all Iowa filings and 0.055% of the entire nation. Scott had a combined total federal tax liability of $896,145,000 on earned income of $5,536,262,000. Other notable statistics from Scott County were 4,670 unemployment claims which collected a total of $19,897,000 and 21,770 charitable contributions valued at $99,500,000. 24,700 filings from Scott County paid a combined total of $104,709,000 in property taxes and 20,740 filings paid $124,941,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Scott county had 154 religious congregations with an estimated 79,401 members.
31.9% of the Scott population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Scott County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 4,948 votes.
At $59,461 the median income is 101.3% of the Iowa average. An estimated 3,186 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Scott, the equivalant of around 3.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Scott County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
12,086	Health care and social assistance
11,389	Manufacturing
11,210	Retail trade
8,987	Accommodation and food services
7,511	Food services and drinking places
7,349	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
7,130	Administrative and support services
6,773	Restaurants and other eating places
4,742	Ambulatory health care services
4,020	Wholesale trade
3,788	Employment services
3,404	Full-service restaurants
3,205	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
3,162	Machinery manufacturing
3,001	Primary metal manufacturing

In 2018 10.53% of listings in Scott County.

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