The population of Macon county is estimated at 106,651. In 2017 there were 1,313 births and 1,156 deaths in Macon county. Macon county has 19,880 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,205 that are owned free and clear and 13,770 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Macon County filed 47,990 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.8% of all Illinois filings and 0.032% of the entire nation. Macon had a combined total federal tax liability of $420,768,000 on earned income of $2,728,440,000. Other notable statistics from Macon County were 2,220 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,457,000 and 7,570 charitable contributions valued at $47,157,000. 8,940 filings from Macon County paid a combined total of $39,690,000 in property taxes and 6,830 filings paid $33,725,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Macon county had 164 religious congregations with an estimated 54,303 members.
22.7% of the Macon population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Macon County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,459 votes.
At $51,828 the median income is 82.2% of the Illinois average. An estimated 2,688 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Macon, the equivalant of around 5.5% 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 Macon County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,240	Manufacturing
8,193	Health care and social assistance
5,724	Retail trade
4,331	Accommodation and food services
3,967	Food services and drinking places
3,661	Machinery manufacturing
3,457	Restaurants and other eating places
3,288	Transportation and warehousing
2,331	Ambulatory health care services
2,069	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,923	Administrative and support services
1,806	Full-service restaurants
1,554	Finance and insurance
1,518	Limited-service restaurants
1,504	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.28% in Macon County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 62521 and 62526).

In 2018 14.96% of listings in Macon County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 62522, 62526 and 62521) dropped their price.

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