The population of Ford county is estimated at 13,342. In 2017 there were 135 births and 195 deaths in Ford county. Ford county has 2,568 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 1,725 that are owned free and clear and 1,383 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Ford County filed 6,480 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.1% of all Illinois filings and 0.004% of the entire nation. Ford had a combined total federal tax liability of $45,495,000 on earned income of $344,254,000. Other notable statistics from Ford County were 280 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,611,000 and 930 charitable contributions valued at $4,414,000. 1,130 filings from Ford County paid a combined total of $4,352,000 in property taxes and 830 filings paid $4,033,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Ford county had 37 religious congregations with an estimated 7,680 members.
19.2% of the Ford population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 47% of Ford County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 289 votes.
At $55,356 the median income is 87.8% of the Illinois average. An estimated 305 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ford, the equivalant of around 4.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Ford County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,053	Health care and social assistance
562	Manufacturing
537	Retail trade
375	Food services and drinking places
367	Restaurants and other eating places
354	Wholesale trade
177	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
177	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
133	Finance and insurance
122	Full-service restaurants
105	Depository credit intermediation
104	Professional, scientific, and technical services
81	Farm product raw material merchant wholesalers
81	Grain and field bean merchant wholesalers
78	Information

In 2018 4.92% of listings in Ford County.

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