The population of Kenton county is estimated at 164,596. In 2017 there were 2,268 births and 1,470 deaths in Kenton county. Kenton county has 33,059 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 9,384 that are owned free and clear and 20,325 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Kenton County filed 78,320 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.1% of all Kentucky filings and 0.053% of the entire nation. Kenton had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,099,234,000 on earned income of $5,979,967,000. Other notable statistics from Kenton County were 2,270 unemployment claims which collected a total of $9,919,000 and 20,440 charitable contributions valued at $116,616,000. 23,600 filings from Kenton County paid a combined total of $77,360,000 in property taxes and 21,140 filings paid $122,858,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Kenton county had 148 religious congregations with an estimated 77,536 members.
29.7% of the Kenton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Kenton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 4,226 votes.
At $59,594 the median income is 123.3% of the Kentucky average. An estimated 3,443 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Kenton, the equivalant of around 4.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Kenton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
10,407	Health care and social assistance
6,233	Transportation and warehousing
5,422	Retail trade
4,645	Restaurants and other eating places
3,891	Manufacturing
2,977	Ambulatory health care services
2,903	Couriers and messengers
2,871	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,858	Administrative and support services
2,771	Full-service restaurants
2,723	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,888	Wholesale trade
1,647	Limited-service restaurants
1,603	Food and beverage stores
1,576	Offices of physicians

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.26% in Kenton County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 41018, 41017, 41016, 41014 and 41011).

In 2018 21.95% of listings in Kenton County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 41018, 41014, 41016, 41051 and 41015) dropped their price.

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