The population of Suffolk county is estimated at 791,165 where 434,642 speak English exclusively and 14,249 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 9,391 births and 5,159 deaths in Suffolk county. Suffolk county has 80,469 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 22,751 that are owned free and clear and 189,547 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Suffolk County filed 381,910 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 11.2% of all Massachusetts filings and 0.256% of the entire nation. Suffolk had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $7,502,145,000 on earned income of $34,588,614,000. Other notable statistics from Suffolk County were 16,220 unemployment claims which collected a total of $106,441,000 and 79,940 charitable contributions valued at $1,277,965,000. 72,560 filings from Suffolk County paid a combined total of $441,103,000 in property taxes and 62,750 filings paid $644,020,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Suffolk county had 450 religious congregations with an estimated 442,649 members.
43.6% of the Suffolk population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 14.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 38% of Suffolk County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 20,868 votes.
At $65,999 the median income is 85.3% of the Massachusetts average. An estimated 14,694 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Suffolk, 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 Suffolk County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
116,274	Health care and social assistance
90,790	Finance and insurance
70,437	Hospitals
61,414	Professional, scientific, and technical services
60,250	General medical and surgical hospitals
54,643	Accommodation and food services
49,785	Securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investments and related activities
44,286	Food services and drinking places
36,776	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
36,286	Administrative and support services
33,221	Restaurants and other eating places
31,965	Retail trade
25,090	Information
23,229	Portfolio management
21,582	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.79% in Suffolk County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 2116, 2151, 2127 and 2124).

In 2018 18.19% of listings in Suffolk County (averaging across 13 zip codes a sample of which are; 2131, 2132, 2136, 2127 and 2129) dropped their price.

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