The population of Elkhart county is estimated at 204,146. In 2017 there were 3,145 births and 1,621 deaths in Elkhart county. Elkhart county has 35,738 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,455 that are owned free and clear and 21,051 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Elkhart County filed 93,820 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.0% of all Indiana filings and 0.063% of the entire nation. Elkhart had a combined total federal tax liability of $979,754,000 on earned income of $5,893,877,000. Other notable statistics from Elkhart County were 1,190 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,319,000 and 15,200 charitable contributions valued at $129,053,000. 17,580 filings from Elkhart County paid a combined total of $41,095,000 in property taxes and 14,580 filings paid $81,993,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Elkhart county had 294 religious congregations with an estimated 82,467 members.
18.7% of the Elkhart population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 19.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 32% of Elkhart County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 2,581 votes.
At $58,781 the median income is 108.6% of the Indiana average. An estimated 2,825 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Elkhart, the equivalant of around 2.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Elkhart County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
53,705	Manufacturing
27,524	Transportation equipment manufacturing
22,292	Motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing
17,067	Travel trailer and camper manufacturing
10,105	Health care and social assistance
8,754	Retail trade
6,500	Accommodation and food services
6,296	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
5,984	Food services and drinking places
5,803	Wholesale trade
5,533	Restaurants and other eating places
5,221	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,992	Administrative and support services
4,317	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
4,301	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.52% in Elkhart County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 46516, 46514, 46526, 46528 and 46517).

In 2018 15.69% of listings in Elkhart County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 46540, 46514, 46526, 46517 and 46516) dropped their price.

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