The population of Hampshire county is estimated at 161,658. In 2017 there were 1,016 births and 1,231 deaths in Hampshire county. Hampshire county has 27,294 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 11,707 that are owned free and clear and 19,701 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Hampshire County filed 72,380 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.1% of all Massachusetts filings and 0.049% of the entire nation. Hampshire had a combined total federal tax liability of $801,810,000 on earned income of $5,074,031,000. Other notable statistics from Hampshire County were 3,310 unemployment claims which collected a total of $20,833,000 and 21,410 charitable contributions valued at $67,368,000. 25,070 filings from Hampshire County paid a combined total of $138,344,000 in property taxes and 20,310 filings paid $136,961,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Hampshire county had 117 religious congregations with an estimated 66,976 members.
45.6% of the Hampshire population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 51% of Hampshire County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,923 votes.
At $67,774 the median income is 87.6% of the Massachusetts average. An estimated 3,029 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Hampshire, the equivalant of around 3.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Hampshire County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
18,108	Health care and social assistance
10,692	Individual and family services
7,914	Retail trade
5,977	Accommodation and food services
5,331	Food services and drinking places
4,850	Restaurants and other eating places
2,939	Manufacturing
2,879	Full-service restaurants
2,742	Food and beverage stores
2,656	Ambulatory health care services
2,464	Grocery stores
2,307	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
1,834	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,676	Wholesale trade
1,627	Other services (except public administration)

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.59% in Hampshire County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 1002, 1007, 1075 and 1082).

In 2018 13.85% of listings in Hampshire County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 1075, 1082, 1002, 1060 and 1007) dropped their price.

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