Hamilton County is the richest county in Indiana. Carmel is the largest city located within this county.
  The population of Hamilton county is estimated at 316,296. In 2017 there were 3,901 births and 1,744 deaths in Hamilton county. Hamilton county has 68,286 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 11,646 that are owned free and clear and 19,903 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Hamilton County filed 151,960 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.9% of all Indiana filings and 0.102% of the entire nation. Hamilton had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,138,962,000 on earned income of $16,630,641,000. Other notable statistics from Hamilton County were 2,040 unemployment claims which collected a total of $9,060,000 and 59,670 charitable contributions valued at $463,726,000. 64,070 filings from Hamilton County paid a combined total of $238,734,000 in property taxes and 57,940 filings paid $473,664,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Hamilton county had 190 religious congregations with an estimated 117,070 members.
57.5% of the Hamilton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 3.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Hamilton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 16,827 votes.
At $95,080 the median income is 175.6% of the Indiana average. An estimated 4,799 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Hamilton, the equivalant of around 2.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Hamilton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
16,978	Health care and social assistance
15,746	Retail trade
12,908	Finance and insurance
11,974	Accommodation and food services
11,589	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
11,521	Administrative and support services
10,975	Food services and drinking places
10,255	Restaurants and other eating places
8,503	Ambulatory health care services
6,790	Professional, scientific, and technical services
6,658	Insurance carriers and related activities
5,369	Full-service restaurants
5,259	Employment services
5,171	Manufacturing
4,528	Credit intermediation and related activities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.93% in Hamilton County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 46040, 46074, 46032, 46037 and 46033).

In 2018 21.00% of listings in Hamilton County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 46033, 46040, 46074, 46032 and 46062) dropped their price.

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