The population of Montgomery county is estimated at 1,048,332 where 563,339 speak English exclusively and 37,782 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 12,906 births and 6,168 deaths in Montgomery county. Montgomery county has 195,734 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 45,731 that are owned free and clear and 115,621 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Montgomery County filed 525,630 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 17.8% of all Maryland filings and 0.353% of the entire nation. Montgomery had an astronomical combined total federal tax liability of $11,159,781,000 on earned income of $56,719,421,000. Other notable statistics from Montgomery County were 10,380 unemployment claims which collected a total of $50,345,000 and 222,720 charitable contributions valued at $1,412,630,000. 205,690 filings from Montgomery County paid a combined total of $1,268,836,000 in property taxes and 175,510 filings paid $2,079,105,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Montgomery county had 733 religious congregations with an estimated 384,607 members.
58.3% of the Montgomery population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 39% of Montgomery County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 4,086 votes.
At $102,944 the median income is 127.5% of the Maryland average. An estimated 18,280 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Montgomery, 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 Montgomery County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
74,255	Professional, scientific, and technical services
61,807	Health care and social assistance
51,482	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
50,502	Administrative and support services
46,240	Retail trade
31,526	Accommodation and food services
28,169	Food services and drinking places
25,913	Restaurants and other eating places
23,578	Ambulatory health care services
20,663	Finance and insurance
20,161	Computer systems design and related services
19,109	Other services (except public administration)
18,846	Employment services
18,082	Information
16,710	Services to buildings and dwellings

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.73% in Montgomery County (averaging across 24 zip codes a sample of which are; 20872, 20815, 20879, 20912 and 20886).

In 2018 18.07% of listings in Montgomery County (averaging across 28 zip codes a sample of which are; 20912, 20877, 20879, 20882 and 20855) dropped their price.

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