The population of Kootenai county is estimated at 153,144. In 2017 there were 1,856 births and 1,388 deaths in Kootenai county. Kootenai county has 28,029 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 10,324 that are owned free and clear and 15,847 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Kootenai County filed 74,530 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 10.1% of all Idaho filings and 0.050% of the entire nation. Kootenai had a combined total federal tax liability of $588,046,000 on earned income of $4,206,842,000. Other notable statistics from Kootenai County were 4,320 unemployment claims which collected a total of $17,374,000 and 18,610 charitable contributions valued at $84,994,000. 21,550 filings from Kootenai County paid a combined total of $59,455,000 in property taxes and 19,090 filings paid $157,428,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Kootenai county had 123 religious congregations with an estimated 79,972 members.
24.5% of the Kootenai population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 43% of Kootenai County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 6,522 votes.
At $56,921 the median income is 108.9% of the Idaho average. An estimated 2,900 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Kootenai, the equivalant of around 3.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Kootenai County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,630	Health care and social assistance
7,996	Retail trade
4,011	Manufacturing
3,837	Restaurants and other eating places
3,213	Ambulatory health care services
2,365	Administrative and support services
1,310	Depository credit intermediation
1,233	Commercial banking
1,227	Food and beverage stores
925	Other services (except public administration)
776	Information
623	Real estate and rental and leasing
608	Wood product manufacturing
584	Services to buildings and dwellings
581	Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.56% in Kootenai County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 83854, 83858 and 83835).

In 2018 8.35% of listings in Kootenai County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 83854, 83833 and 83858) dropped their price.

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