The population of Norfolk county is estimated at 696,818 where 518,021 speak English exclusively and 8,893 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 7,240 births and 5,900 deaths in Norfolk county. Norfolk county has 132,562 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 45,807 that are owned free and clear and 79,545 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Norfolk County filed 354,220 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 10.4% of all Massachusetts filings and 0.238% of the entire nation. Norfolk had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $9,650,155,000 on earned income of $44,752,231,000. Other notable statistics from Norfolk County were 15,300 unemployment claims which collected a total of $115,743,000 and 136,300 charitable contributions valued at $994,828,000. 143,700 filings from Norfolk County paid a combined total of $1,122,527,000 in property taxes and 119,000 filings paid $1,240,698,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Norfolk county had 340 religious congregations with an estimated 433,862 members.
52.5% of the Norfolk population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 6.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 51% of Norfolk County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 7,586 votes.
At $100,710 the median income is 130.1% of the Massachusetts average. An estimated 12,465 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Norfolk, the equivalant of around 3.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Norfolk County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
66,785	Health care and social assistance
43,010	Retail trade
28,874	Finance and insurance
27,505	Accommodation and food services
25,734	Food services and drinking places
23,080	Restaurants and other eating places
21,839	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
20,674	Professional, scientific, and technical services
20,613	Manufacturing
20,574	Administrative and support services
19,616	Individual and family services
18,749	Ambulatory health care services
18,322	Services for the elderly and persons with disabilities
15,930	Wholesale trade
14,518	Insurance carriers and related activities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.92% in Norfolk County (averaging across 13 zip codes a sample of which are; 2025, 2072, 2038, 2067 and 2035).

In 2018 16.65% of listings in Norfolk County (averaging across 24 zip codes a sample of which are; 2186, 2062, 2482, 2056 and 2025) dropped their price.

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