The population of Ness county is estimated at 2,956. In 2017 there were 31 births and 43 deaths in Ness county. Ness county has 376 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 722 that are owned free and clear and 267 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Ness County filed 1,420 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.1% of all Kansas filings and 0.001% of the entire nation. Ness had a combined total federal tax liability of $8,403,000 on earned income of $65,038,000. Other notable statistics from Ness County were 0 unemployment claims which collected a total of $0 and 200 charitable contributions valued at $880,000. 190 filings from Ness County paid a combined total of $497,000 in property taxes and 50 filings paid $278,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Ness county had 18 religious congregations with an estimated 2,956 members.
19.0% of the Ness population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Ness County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 18 votes.
At $49,258 the median income is 87.4% of the Kansas average. An estimated 40 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ness, the equivalant of around 2.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Ness County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
257	Health care and social assistance
98	Retail trade
65	Transportation and warehousing
65	Truck transportation
35	Food services and drinking places
35	Restaurants and other eating places
34	Grocery stores
34	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
28	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
27	State commercial banks (banking)
23	Manufacturing
20	Professional, scientific, and technical services
20	Grain and field bean merchant wholesalers
20	Farm product raw material merchant wholesalers
15	Motor vehicle and parts dealers

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