The population of Muskegon county is estimated at 173,102. In 2017 there were 2,079 births and 1,728 deaths in Muskegon county. Muskegon county has 32,689 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 16,589 that are owned free and clear and 16,338 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Muskegon County filed 78,670 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.7% of all Michigan filings and 0.053% of the entire nation. Muskegon had a combined total federal tax liability of $562,334,000 on earned income of $3,834,762,000. Other notable statistics from Muskegon County were 3,960 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,743,000 and 12,220 charitable contributions valued at $64,225,000. 14,140 filings from Muskegon County paid a combined total of $49,665,000 in property taxes and 11,770 filings paid $62,987,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Muskegon county had 187 religious congregations with an estimated 51,929 members.
18.6% of the Muskegon population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Muskegon County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,060 votes.
At $48,885 the median income is 89.1% of the Michigan average. An estimated 4,232 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Muskegon, the equivalant of around 5.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Muskegon County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
12,483	Manufacturing
11,494	Health care and social assistance
7,597	Retail trade
5,450	Accommodation and food services
4,826	Food services and drinking places
4,470	Restaurants and other eating places
3,575	Primary metal manufacturing
3,172	Ambulatory health care services
2,405	Ferrous metal foundries
2,393	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,344	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
2,310	General merchandise stores
2,223	Administrative and support services
2,109	Full-service restaurants
2,086	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.44% in Muskegon County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 49445, 49444, 49457, 49437 and 49441).

In 2018 16.23% of listings in Muskegon County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 49442, 49437, 49441, 49461 and 49445) dropped their price.

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