The population of Bristol county is estimated at 558,312 where 412,567 speak English exclusively and 2,540 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 5,627 births and 5,271 deaths in Bristol county. Bristol county has 98,058 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 34,735 that are owned free and clear and 80,217 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Bristol County filed 274,910 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 8.1% of all Massachusetts filings and 0.184% of the entire nation. Bristol had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,705,857,000 on earned income of $17,409,199,000. Other notable statistics from Bristol County were 20,350 unemployment claims which collected a total of $125,363,000 and 72,590 charitable contributions valued at $171,404,000. 82,300 filings from Bristol County paid a combined total of $382,938,000 in property taxes and 73,270 filings paid $587,620,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Bristol county had 325 religious congregations with an estimated 333,007 members.
27.3% of the Bristol population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Bristol County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 6,503 votes.
At $67,085 the median income is 86.7% of the Massachusetts average. An estimated 13,870 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Bristol, the equivalant of around 4.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Bristol County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
39,217	Health care and social assistance
33,806	Retail trade
26,935	Manufacturing
19,755	Accommodation and food services
18,970	Food services and drinking places
17,524	Restaurants and other eating places
12,761	Ambulatory health care services
10,690	Nursing and residential care facilities
10,556	Wholesale trade
9,985	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
9,123	Hospitals
9,054	Administrative and support services
8,917	Full-service restaurants
8,216	Food and beverage stores
7,733	General medical and surgical hospitals

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.92% in Bristol County (averaging across 17 zip codes a sample of which are; 2721, 2760, 2703, 2790 and 2777).

In 2018 21.04% of listings in Bristol County (averaging across 19 zip codes a sample of which are; 2748, 2719, 2721 and 2726) dropped their price.

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