The population of Wayne county is estimated at 1,756,598 where 1,474,251 speak English exclusively and 71,634 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 22,903 births and 17,881 deaths in Wayne county. Wayne county has 303,559 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 151,147 that are owned free and clear and 248,043 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Wayne County filed 796,330 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 16.9% of all Michigan filings and 0.534% of the entire nation. Wayne had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $7,388,936,000 on earned income of $42,613,017,000. Other notable statistics from Wayne County were 38,650 unemployment claims which collected a total of $132,408,000 and 168,040 charitable contributions valued at $837,507,000. 170,180 filings from Wayne County paid a combined total of $725,743,000 in property taxes and 138,530 filings paid $821,946,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Wayne county had 1,330 religious congregations with an estimated 788,507 members.
22.8% of the Wayne population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 14.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Wayne County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 40,125 votes.
At $45,182 the median income is 82.4% of the Michigan average. An estimated 42,673 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Wayne, 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 6.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Wayne County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
101,848	Health care and social assistance
71,526	Manufacturing
65,409	Retail trade
61,446	Accommodation and food services
53,250	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
51,102	Administrative and support services
49,482	Food services and drinking places
46,825	Professional, scientific, and technical services
43,330	Restaurants and other eating places
37,797	Transportation and warehousing
35,859	General medical and surgical hospitals
29,403	Ambulatory health care services
29,176	Transportation equipment manufacturing
28,103	Employment services
27,110	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.57% in Wayne County (averaging across 48 zip codes a sample of which are; 48135, 48127 and 48180).

In 2018 18.42% of listings in Wayne County (averaging across 49 zip codes a sample of which are; 48173 and 48134) dropped their price.

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