The population of Story county is estimated at 96,816. In 2017 there were 890 births and 514 deaths in Story county. Story county has 13,183 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,938 that are owned free and clear and 15,615 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Story County filed 36,690 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.5% of all Iowa filings and 0.025% of the entire nation. Story had a combined total federal tax liability of $371,452,000 on earned income of $2,507,417,000. Other notable statistics from Story County were 960 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,038,000 and 10,700 charitable contributions valued at $62,628,000. 11,700 filings from Story County paid a combined total of $47,593,000 in property taxes and 8,980 filings paid $52,219,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Story county had 111 religious congregations with an estimated 43,961 members.
50.6% of the Story population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 3.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 51% of Story County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 2,381 votes.
At $61,381 the median income is 104.6% of the Iowa average. An estimated 1,144 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Story, the equivalant of around 2.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 2.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Story County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
4,855	Health care and social assistance
4,821	Manufacturing
4,708	Retail trade
4,269	Accommodation and food services
3,765	Food services and drinking places
3,381	Restaurants and other eating places
1,838	Full-service restaurants
1,416	Ambulatory health care services
1,374	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,322	Administrative and support services
1,303	Limited-service restaurants
1,114	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,108	General merchandise stores
1,105	Food and beverage stores
1,049	Grocery stores

In 2018 17.21% of listings in Story County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 50014, 50010 and 50201) dropped their price.

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