The population of Piatt county is estimated at 16,526. In 2017 there were 178 births and 170 deaths in Piatt county. Piatt county has 3,576 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 1,921 that are owned free and clear and 1,285 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Piatt County filed 8,030 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.1% of all Illinois filings and 0.005% of the entire nation. Piatt had a combined total federal tax liability of $78,664,000 on earned income of $537,435,000. Other notable statistics from Piatt County were 310 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,757,000 and 1,470 charitable contributions valued at $8,112,000. 1,830 filings from Piatt County paid a combined total of $7,421,000 in property taxes and 1,470 filings paid $8,704,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Piatt county had 35 religious congregations with an estimated 6,531 members.
28.5% of the Piatt population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 54% of Piatt County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 202 votes.
At $67,173 the median income is 106.5% of the Illinois average. An estimated 337 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Piatt, the equivalant of around 4.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Piatt County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
446	Retail trade
275	Wholesale trade
250	Food services and drinking places
220	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
216	Restaurants and other eating places
183	Manufacturing
181	Finance and insurance
133	Full-service restaurants
126	Credit intermediation and related activities
126	Depository credit intermediation
96	Professional, scientific, and technical services
67	Farm product raw material merchant wholesalers
67	Grain and field bean merchant wholesalers
55	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
48	Specialized freight trucking

In 2018 16.67% of listings in Piatt County.

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