The population of Ford county is estimated at 34,501. In 2017 there were 619 births and 223 deaths in Ford county. Ford county has 4,470 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,678 that are owned free and clear and 3,997 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Ford County filed 15,430 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.2% of all Kansas filings and 0.010% of the entire nation. Ford had a combined total federal tax liability of $97,637,000 on earned income of $693,762,000. Other notable statistics from Ford County were 290 unemployment claims which collected a total of $914,000 and 1,780 charitable contributions valued at $9,459,000. 1,900 filings from Ford County paid a combined total of $6,474,000 in property taxes and 1,380 filings paid $7,123,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Ford county had 45 religious congregations with an estimated 22,436 members.
18.3% of the Ford population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 29.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 22% of Ford County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 657 votes.
At $50,080 the median income is 88.8% of the Kansas average. An estimated 496 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ford, the equivalant of around 2.8% 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 Ford County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,272	Manufacturing
1,805	Retail trade
1,583	Health care and social assistance
1,032	Accommodation and food services
807	Food services and drinking places
750	Wholesale trade
718	Restaurants and other eating places
701	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
701	Ambulatory health care services
663	Administrative and support services
510	General merchandise stores
488	Professional, scientific, and technical services
470	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
459	Services to buildings and dwellings
437	Transportation and warehousing

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