The population of Starke county is estimated at 22,992. In 2017 there were 256 births and 281 deaths in Starke county. Starke county has 4,756 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,418 that are owned free and clear and 1,864 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Starke County filed 10,300 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.3% of all Indiana filings and 0.007% of the entire nation. Starke had a combined total federal tax liability of $63,101,000 on earned income of $456,824,000. Other notable statistics from Starke County were 340 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,193,000 and 1,020 charitable contributions valued at $4,318,000. 1,360 filings from Starke County paid a combined total of $2,224,000 in property taxes and 1,170 filings paid $6,203,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Starke county had 30 religious congregations with an estimated 6,177 members.
11.4% of the Starke population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 16.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 40% of Starke County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 474 votes.
At $46,940 the median income is 86.7% of the Indiana average. An estimated 459 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Starke, the equivalant of around 4.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Starke County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
853	Manufacturing
625	Retail trade
460	Health care and social assistance
326	Accommodation and food services
149	Food and beverage stores
147	Full-service restaurants
146	General merchandise stores
146	Other general merchandise stores
146	All other general merchandise stores
144	Limited-service restaurants
135	Grocery stores
131	Other services (except public administration)
106	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
106	Plastics product manufacturing
106	Other plastics product manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 7.82% in Starke County.

In 2018 13.92% of listings in Starke County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 46534 and 46574) dropped their price.

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