The population of Oakland county is estimated at 1,245,762 where 984,596 speak English exclusively and 32,442 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 13,554 births and 10,727 deaths in Oakland county. Oakland county has 264,844 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 86,144 that are owned free and clear and 132,710 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Oakland County filed 635,870 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 13.5% of all Michigan filings and 0.427% of the entire nation. Oakland had an astronomical combined total federal tax liability of $11,520,046,000 on earned income of $58,550,072,000. Other notable statistics from Oakland County were 21,450 unemployment claims which collected a total of $78,578,000 and 214,490 charitable contributions valued at $1,224,358,000. 225,420 filings from Oakland County paid a combined total of $1,206,637,000 in property taxes and 190,800 filings paid $1,446,690,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Oakland county had 717 religious congregations with an estimated 607,575 members.
45.7% of the Oakland population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 6.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 53% of Oakland County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 12,949 votes.
At $77,558 the median income is 141.4% of the Michigan average. An estimated 22,784 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Oakland, 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 4.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Oakland County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
100,125	Health care and social assistance
82,960	Professional, scientific, and technical services
76,987	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
75,671	Administrative and support services
70,570	Retail trade
51,669	Accommodation and food services
50,294	Employment services
48,388	Food services and drinking places
47,243	Manufacturing
43,837	Ambulatory health care services
43,210	Restaurants and other eating places
38,723	Finance and insurance
31,470	General medical and surgical hospitals
31,470	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
29,500	Temporary help services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.26% in Oakland County (averaging across 53 zip codes a sample of which are; 48033, 48075, 48076, 48327 and 48220).

In 2018 19.67% of listings in Oakland County (averaging across 58 zip codes a sample of which are; 48067, 48178, 48302, 48327 and 48301) dropped their price.

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