The population of De Kalb county is estimated at 42,620. In 2017 there were 518 births and 402 deaths in De Kalb county. De Kalb county has 8,759 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,792 that are owned free and clear and 3,400 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of De Kalb County filed 20,890 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.7% of all Indiana filings and 0.014% of the entire nation. De Kalb had a combined total federal tax liability of $158,612,000 on earned income of $1,068,582,000. Other notable statistics from De Kalb County were 410 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,482,000 and 3,070 charitable contributions valued at $18,159,000. 3,700 filings from De Kalb County paid a combined total of $6,389,000 in property taxes and 3,140 filings paid $18,027,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 De Kalb county had 76 religious congregations with an estimated 17,165 members.
17.8% of the De Kalb population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 39% of DeKalb County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 502 votes.
At $54,289 the median income is 100.3% of the Indiana average. An estimated 650 people claimed to be unemployed last year in De Kalb, the equivalant of around 2.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.9%.

Top 15 Industries in De Kalb County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,128	Manufacturing
1,786	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
1,764	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
1,613	Health care and social assistance
1,469	Retail trade
1,467	Primary metal manufacturing
1,387	Accommodation and food services
1,284	Other plastics product manufacturing
1,284	All other plastics product manufacturing
1,221	Restaurants and other eating places
946	Architectural and structural metals manufacturing
928	Transportation and warehousing
828	Transportation equipment manufacturing
822	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
658	Full-service restaurants

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