The population of Saline county is estimated at 24,253. In 2017 there were 332 births and 329 deaths in Saline county. Saline county has 3,671 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,889 that are owned free and clear and 2,819 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Saline County filed 10,160 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all Illinois filings and 0.007% of the entire nation. Saline had a combined total federal tax liability of $75,086,000 on earned income of $491,999,000. Other notable statistics from Saline County were 660 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,002,000 and 1,160 charitable contributions valued at $7,843,000. 1,370 filings from Saline County paid a combined total of $4,678,000 in property taxes and 960 filings paid $4,382,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Saline county had 84 religious congregations with an estimated 15,588 members.
16.4% of the Saline population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Saline County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 521 votes.
At $41,394 the median income is 65.7% of the Illinois average. An estimated 617 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Saline, the equivalant of around 6.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 8.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Saline County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,808	Health care and social assistance
1,245	Retail trade
776	Accommodation and food services
756	Food services and drinking places
735	Restaurants and other eating places
590	Nursing and residential care facilities
466	Limited-service restaurants
456	Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities)
414	Ambulatory health care services
370	Other general merchandise stores
370	General merchandise stores
348	Manufacturing
242	Full-service restaurants
223	Commercial banking
190	Food and beverage stores

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