The population of Clay county is estimated at 62,858. In 2017 there were 896 births and 449 deaths in Clay county. Clay county has 11,073 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,432 that are owned free and clear and 6,774 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Clay County filed 28,390 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.0% of all Minnesota filings and 0.019% of the entire nation. Clay had a combined total federal tax liability of $206,396,000 on earned income of $1,611,470,000. Other notable statistics from Clay County were 1,350 unemployment claims which collected a total of $7,029,000 and 6,360 charitable contributions valued at $24,445,000. 7,640 filings from Clay County paid a combined total of $23,545,000 in property taxes and 6,580 filings paid $41,741,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Clay county had 74 religious congregations with an estimated 35,938 members.
33.2% of the Clay population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Clay County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 337 votes.
At $60,213 the median income is 88.1% of the Minnesota average. An estimated 1,152 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Clay, the equivalant of around 3.2% 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 Clay County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,955	Health care and social assistance
2,682	Retail trade
2,194	Nursing and residential care facilities
1,824	Accommodation and food services
1,718	Food services and drinking places
1,430	Restaurants and other eating places
1,417	Residential intellectual and developmental disability, mental health, and substance abuse facilities
1,057	Social assistance
900	Wholesale trade
833	Limited-service restaurants
832	Manufacturing
783	Residential intellectual and developmental disability facilities
704	Ambulatory health care services
691	General merchandise stores
634	Residential mental health and substance abuse facilities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.89% in Clay County.

In 2018 20.10% of listings in Clay County.

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