The population of Charles county is estimated at 157,430. In 2017 there were 1,851 births and 1,112 deaths in Charles county. Charles county has 34,658 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,659 that are owned free and clear and 10,897 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Charles County filed 79,860 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.7% of all Maryland filings and 0.054% of the entire nation. Charles had a combined total federal tax liability of $783,273,000 on earned income of $5,635,161,000. Other notable statistics from Charles County were 2,360 unemployment claims which collected a total of $10,755,000 and 36,300 charitable contributions valued at $186,574,000. 34,490 filings from Charles County paid a combined total of $143,758,000 in property taxes and 32,880 filings paid $330,059,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Charles county had 129 religious congregations with an estimated 54,163 members.
28.5% of the Charles population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Charles County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 2,313 votes.
At $94,478 the median income is 117.1% of the Maryland average. An estimated 3,419 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Charles, the equivalant of around 4.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Charles County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,729	Retail trade
4,598	Health care and social assistance
4,476	Food services and drinking places
4,351	Restaurants and other eating places
2,177	Full-service restaurants
1,979	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,964	Ambulatory health care services
1,794	Limited-service restaurants
1,373	Motor vehicle and parts dealers
1,370	Food and beverage stores
1,353	Other services (except public administration)
1,168	Transportation and warehousing
1,151	Grocery stores
1,144	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,066	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.67% in Charles County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 20640, 20637, 20646, 20603 and 20602).

In 2018 16.61% of listings in Charles County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 20616, 20646, 20603, 20640 and 20601) dropped their price.

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