The population of Hennepin county is estimated at 1,237,027 where 910,956 speak English exclusively and 35,679 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 16,588 births and 8,526 deaths in Hennepin county. Hennepin county has 239,686 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 66,435 that are owned free and clear and 169,792 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Hennepin County filed 636,450 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 23.3% of all Minnesota filings and 0.427% of the entire nation. Hennepin had an astronomical combined total federal tax liability of $10,890,428,000 on earned income of $59,159,362,000. Other notable statistics from Hennepin County were 19,600 unemployment claims which collected a total of $108,931,000 and 215,560 charitable contributions valued at $1,446,716,000. 227,160 filings from Hennepin County paid a combined total of $1,137,628,000 in property taxes and 193,350 filings paid $1,635,949,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Hennepin county had 838 religious congregations with an estimated 626,233 members.
48.2% of the Hennepin population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 54% of Hennepin County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 5,321 votes.
At $74,568 the median income is 109.1% of the Minnesota average. An estimated 21,118 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Hennepin, the equivalant of around 3.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Hennepin County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
128,451	Health care and social assistance
85,552	Finance and insurance
79,747	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
78,368	Administrative and support services
74,958	Retail trade
74,416	Professional, scientific, and technical services
72,307	Manufacturing
66,296	Accommodation and food services
57,459	Food services and drinking places
49,942	Employment services
49,420	Restaurants and other eating places
43,541	Ambulatory health care services
40,730	Insurance carriers and related activities
36,322	Temporary help services
36,257	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.89% in Hennepin County (averaging across 32 zip codes a sample of which are; 55422, 55423, 55446, 55305 and 55345).

In 2018 18.41% of listings in Hennepin County (averaging across 46 zip codes a sample of which are; 55419, 55427, 55405, 55422 and 55305) dropped their price.

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