The population of Essex county is estimated at 780,633 where 537,626 speak English exclusively and 6,493 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 8,430 births and 6,760 deaths in Essex county. Essex county has 138,604 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 43,968 that are owned free and clear and 103,384 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Essex County filed 397,980 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 11.7% of all Massachusetts filings and 0.267% of the entire nation. Essex had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $6,032,049,000 on earned income of $33,169,915,000. Other notable statistics from Essex County were 20,240 unemployment claims which collected a total of $137,558,000 and 125,250 charitable contributions valued at $468,647,000. 137,090 filings from Essex County paid a combined total of $897,549,000 in property taxes and 116,310 filings paid $1,087,264,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Essex county had 434 religious congregations with an estimated 424,453 members.
38.8% of the Essex population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 48% of Essex County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 12,894 votes.
At $75,309 the median income is 97.3% of the Massachusetts average. An estimated 15,663 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Essex, the equivalant of around 3.8% 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 Essex County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
62,430	Health care and social assistance
38,451	Manufacturing
37,792	Retail trade
25,502	Accommodation and food services
24,083	Food services and drinking places
21,565	Restaurants and other eating places
20,524	Ambulatory health care services
17,033	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
15,531	Administrative and support services
15,197	Social assistance
15,135	Professional, scientific, and technical services
13,685	Nursing and residential care facilities
13,024	Hospitals
12,841	Computer and electronic product manufacturing
12,204	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.92% in Essex County (averaging across 15 zip codes a sample of which are; 1970, 1921, 1845, 1902 and 1830).

In 2018 17.56% of listings in Essex County (averaging across 26 zip codes a sample of which are; 1835, 1845, 1945, 1923 and 1921) dropped their price.

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