The population of Madison county is estimated at 265,598. In 2017 there were 2,990 births and 2,773 deaths in Madison county. Madison county has 54,084 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 24,375 that are owned free and clear and 29,635 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Madison County filed 125,220 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.1% of all Illinois filings and 0.084% of the entire nation. Madison had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,168,372,000 on earned income of $7,616,146,000. Other notable statistics from Madison County were 5,840 unemployment claims which collected a total of $33,038,000 and 26,150 charitable contributions valued at $119,263,000. 31,280 filings from Madison County paid a combined total of $142,823,000 in property taxes and 26,700 filings paid $154,848,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Madison county had 357 religious congregations with an estimated 131,105 members.
26.2% of the Madison population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 48% of Madison County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 5,699 votes.
At $58,077 the median income is 92.1% of the Illinois average. An estimated 6,186 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Madison, the equivalant of around 4.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Madison County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
13,914	Health care and social assistance
12,506	Retail trade
12,308	Manufacturing
9,920	Accommodation and food services
9,516	Food services and drinking places
8,611	Restaurants and other eating places
5,351	Transportation and warehousing
4,963	Primary metal manufacturing
4,083	Full-service restaurants
3,999	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,937	Ambulatory health care services
3,908	Limited-service restaurants
3,711	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,670	General medical and surgical hospitals
3,670	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.21% in Madison County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 62294, 62002, 62024, 62234 and 62010).

In 2018 15.60% of listings in Madison County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 62095, 62035, 62234, 62034 and 62025) dropped their price.

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