The population of Sangamon county is estimated at 197,591. In 2017 there were 2,235 births and 2,097 deaths in Sangamon county. Sangamon county has 40,611 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 17,740 that are owned free and clear and 24,635 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Sangamon County filed 98,460 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.6% of all Illinois filings and 0.066% of the entire nation. Sangamon had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,040,874,000 on earned income of $6,439,795,000. Other notable statistics from Sangamon County were 3,260 unemployment claims which collected a total of $16,472,000 and 20,370 charitable contributions valued at $108,316,000. 23,680 filings from Sangamon County paid a combined total of $118,855,000 in property taxes and 19,660 filings paid $107,865,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Sangamon county had 225 religious congregations with an estimated 108,076 members.
34.2% of the Sangamon population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Sangamon County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 2,440 votes.
At $61,519 the median income is 97.6% of the Illinois average. An estimated 4,380 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Sangamon, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Sangamon County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
20,510	Health care and social assistance
11,950	Retail trade
9,447	Accommodation and food services
7,786	Restaurants and other eating places
6,410	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
6,309	Finance and insurance
6,160	Administrative and support services
5,948	Ambulatory health care services
5,297	Social assistance
4,381	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,079	Full-service restaurants
3,524	Employment services
3,416	Temporary help services
3,360	Insurance carriers and related activities
3,346	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.88% in Sangamon County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 62704, 62711, 62703, 62629 and 62702).

In 2018 16.82% of listings in Sangamon County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 62629, 62702, 62704, 62703 and 62712) dropped their price.

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