The population of Winnebago county is estimated at 286,088. In 2017 there were 3,531 births and 2,724 deaths in Winnebago county. Winnebago county has 57,564 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 21,781 that are owned free and clear and 36,156 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Winnebago County filed 134,770 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.2% of all Illinois filings and 0.090% of the entire nation. Winnebago had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,107,627,000 on earned income of $7,149,813,000. Other notable statistics from Winnebago County were 8,170 unemployment claims which collected a total of $36,216,000 and 28,070 charitable contributions valued at $127,033,000. 31,540 filings from Winnebago County paid a combined total of $161,653,000 in property taxes and 26,230 filings paid $129,136,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Winnebago county had 280 religious congregations with an estimated 154,460 members.
22.4% of the Winnebago population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 40% of Winnebago County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 3,074 votes.
At $53,490 the median income is 84.8% of the Illinois average. An estimated 8,759 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Winnebago, the equivalant of around 6.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Winnebago County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
25,024	Manufacturing
19,871	Health care and social assistance
14,298	Retail trade
11,058	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
10,732	Administrative and support services
10,168	Accommodation and food services
9,331	Food services and drinking places
8,695	Restaurants and other eating places
6,705	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
6,331	General medical and surgical hospitals
6,331	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
6,075	Machinery manufacturing
5,886	Ambulatory health care services
5,459	Transportation and warehousing
5,128	Employment services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.93% in Winnebago County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 61109, 61073, 61114 and 61107).

In 2018 14.67% of listings in Winnebago County (averaging across 13 zip codes a sample of which are; 61115, 61107, 61080, 61108 and 61072) dropped their price.

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