The population of Will county is estimated at 689,731 where 507,238 speak English exclusively and 5,771 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 7,753 births and 4,527 deaths in Will county. Will county has 153,193 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 34,232 that are owned free and clear and 37,831 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Will County filed 332,230 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.4% of all Illinois filings and 0.223% of the entire nation. Will had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,909,497,000 on earned income of $24,284,389,000. Other notable statistics from Will County were 15,310 unemployment claims which collected a total of $92,564,000 and 122,610 charitable contributions valued at $407,335,000. 132,070 filings from Will County paid a combined total of $944,867,000 in property taxes and 117,240 filings paid $879,866,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Will county had 342 religious congregations with an estimated 311,505 members.
33.6% of the Will population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Will County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 41,302 votes.
At $82,477 the median income is 130.8% of the Illinois average. An estimated 18,697 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Will, the equivalant of around 5.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Will County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
27,615	Retail trade
24,364	Health care and social assistance
20,582	Accommodation and food services
20,377	Manufacturing
20,056	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
19,189	Administrative and support services
17,923	Food services and drinking places
16,167	Restaurants and other eating places
15,065	Transportation and warehousing
11,499	Employment services
11,449	Ambulatory health care services
11,420	Wholesale trade
10,864	Temporary help services
9,019	Professional, scientific, and technical services
7,520	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.45% in Will County (averaging across 24 zip codes a sample of which are; 60544, 60431, 60423, 60446 and 60432).

In 2018 19.20% of listings in Will County (averaging across 25 zip codes a sample of which are; 60448, 60410, 60490, 60401 and 60586) dropped their price.

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