The population of Saint Joseph county is estimated at 269,613. In 2017 there were 3,467 births and 2,438 deaths in Saint Joseph county. Saint Joseph county has 50,905 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 20,549 that are owned free and clear and 31,615 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Saint Joseph County filed 125,590 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.0% of all Indiana filings and 0.084% of the entire nation. Saint Joseph had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,196,201,000 on earned income of $7,322,148,000. Other notable statistics from Saint Joseph County were 2,340 unemployment claims which collected a total of $9,471,000 and 21,270 charitable contributions valued at $157,799,000. 23,440 filings from Saint Joseph County paid a combined total of $60,527,000 in property taxes and 19,720 filings paid $113,447,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Saint Joseph county had 273 religious congregations with an estimated 174,926 members.
28.4% of the Saint Joseph population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of Saint Joseph County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,192 votes.
At $52,188 the median income is 96.4% of the Indiana average. An estimated 4,779 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Saint Joseph, the equivalant of around 3.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Saint Joseph County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
17,762	Health care and social assistance
14,702	Retail trade
13,831	Manufacturing
10,899	Accommodation and food services
10,075	Food services and drinking places
9,329	Restaurants and other eating places
6,421	Ambulatory health care services
5,312	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
5,063	Administrative and support services
4,882	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,855	Full-service restaurants
4,366	Wholesale trade
4,097	Nursing and residential care facilities
4,014	Finance and insurance
3,925	Limited-service restaurants

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