The population of Shawnee county is estimated at 178,154. In 2017 there were 2,206 births and 1,784 deaths in Shawnee county. Shawnee county has 32,855 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 14,860 that are owned free and clear and 24,885 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Shawnee County filed 83,480 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 6.3% of all Kansas filings and 0.056% of the entire nation. Shawnee had a combined total federal tax liability of $682,920,000 on earned income of $4,659,919,000. Other notable statistics from Shawnee County were 2,760 unemployment claims which collected a total of $8,274,000 and 16,080 charitable contributions valued at $89,718,000. 17,960 filings from Shawnee County paid a combined total of $62,153,000 in property taxes and 14,230 filings paid $77,552,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Shawnee county had 227 religious congregations with an estimated 84,485 members.
30.4% of the Shawnee population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of Shawnee County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,196 votes.
At $56,810 the median income is 100.8% of the Kansas average. An estimated 3,330 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Shawnee, the equivalant of around 3.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Shawnee County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
16,404	Health care and social assistance
9,678	Retail trade
6,757	Hospitals
6,709	Food services and drinking places
6,072	Restaurants and other eating places
5,981	General medical and surgical hospitals
5,351	Finance and insurance
5,291	Manufacturing
3,976	Ambulatory health care services
3,972	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,789	Administrative and support services
3,580	Other services (except public administration)
3,246	Insurance carriers and related activities
2,883	Full-service restaurants
2,667	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.04% in Shawnee County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 66604, 66614, 66605 and 66606).

In 2018 18.04% of listings in Shawnee County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 66604, 66606, 66605, 66614 and 66610) dropped their price.

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