The population of Peoria county is estimated at 185,296. In 2017 there were 2,578 births and 1,758 deaths in Peoria county. Peoria county has 33,708 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 16,807 that are owned free and clear and 25,278 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Peoria County filed 86,190 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.4% of all Illinois filings and 0.058% of the entire nation. Peoria had a combined total federal tax liability of $985,991,000 on earned income of $5,878,613,000. Other notable statistics from Peoria County were 4,270 unemployment claims which collected a total of $22,736,000 and 17,590 charitable contributions valued at $117,084,000. 20,050 filings from Peoria County paid a combined total of $115,646,000 in property taxes and 16,100 filings paid $93,048,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Peoria county had 232 religious congregations with an estimated 101,347 members.
30.2% of the Peoria population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Peoria County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 595 votes.
At $54,195 the median income is 86.0% of the Illinois average. An estimated 4,948 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Peoria, the equivalant of around 5.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Peoria County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
22,518	Health care and social assistance
10,839	Retail trade
10,434	Hospitals
10,434	General medical and surgical hospitals
10,434	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
8,946	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
8,719	Administrative and support services
8,372	Accommodation and food services
7,747	Manufacturing
7,694	Food services and drinking places
6,754	Restaurants and other eating places
6,647	Ambulatory health care services
5,236	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,714	Other services (except public administration)
4,052	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.96% in Peoria County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 61604, 61607, 61525 and 61615).

In 2018 21.25% of listings in Peoria County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 61607, 61615, 61525 and 61523) dropped their price.

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