The population of Stearns county is estimated at 156,571. In 2017 there were 1,972 births and 968 deaths in Stearns county. Stearns county has 27,859 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,406 that are owned free and clear and 15,967 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Stearns County filed 73,550 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.7% of all Minnesota filings and 0.049% of the entire nation. Stearns had a combined total federal tax liability of $758,177,000 on earned income of $4,754,882,000. Other notable statistics from Stearns County were 3,960 unemployment claims which collected a total of $19,496,000 and 17,100 charitable contributions valued at $76,860,000. 19,060 filings from Stearns County paid a combined total of $55,674,000 in property taxes and 15,850 filings paid $104,243,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Stearns county had 131 religious congregations with an estimated 93,064 members.
27.2% of the Stearns population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 50% of Stearns County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 807 votes.
At $63,017 the median income is 92.2% of the Minnesota average. An estimated 3,041 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Stearns, 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 3.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Stearns County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
14,979	Health care and social assistance
11,231	Manufacturing
10,874	Retail trade
6,378	Accommodation and food services
5,688	Food services and drinking places
4,996	Restaurants and other eating places
4,567	Ambulatory health care services
3,710	Transportation and warehousing
3,672	Wholesale trade
3,527	Finance and insurance
3,378	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,187	Administrative and support services
2,671	Full-service restaurants
2,453	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
2,411	Credit intermediation and related activities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.45% in Stearns County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 56377, 56304, 56303 and 56301).

In 2018 13.71% of listings in Stearns County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 56377, 56303, 56304 and 56301) dropped their price.

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