The population of Barton county is estimated at 26,911. In 2017 there were 346 births and 304 deaths in Barton county. Barton county has 4,065 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,906 that are owned free and clear and 3,312 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Barton County filed 12,050 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.9% of all Kansas filings and 0.008% of the entire nation. Barton had a combined total federal tax liability of $85,851,000 on earned income of $577,983,000. Other notable statistics from Barton County were 460 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,815,000 and 1,690 charitable contributions valued at $11,107,000. 1,790 filings from Barton County paid a combined total of $6,122,000 in property taxes and 1,020 filings paid $4,606,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Barton county had 62 religious congregations with an estimated 19,076 members.
16.9% of the Barton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 37% of Barton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,922 votes.
At $46,934 the median income is 83.2% of the Kansas average. An estimated 511 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Barton, 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 Barton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,917	Health care and social assistance
1,651	Retail trade
934	Accommodation and food services
922	Finance and insurance
807	Food services and drinking places
646	Insurance carriers and related activities
576	Hospitals
576	General medical and surgical hospitals
576	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
542	Wholesale trade
519	Nursing and residential care facilities
460	Social assistance
411	Full-service restaurants
362	Ambulatory health care services
337	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.26% in Barton County.

In 2018 15.48% of listings in Barton County.

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