The population of Buchanan county is estimated at 89,354. In 2017 there were 1,123 births and 855 deaths in Buchanan county. Buchanan county has 13,948 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,223 that are owned free and clear and 12,338 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Buchanan County filed 38,890 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.4% of all Missouri filings and 0.026% of the entire nation. Buchanan had a combined total federal tax liability of $294,451,000 on earned income of $1,983,570,000. Other notable statistics from Buchanan County were 1,240 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,416,000 and 5,560 charitable contributions valued at $29,815,000. 6,190 filings from Buchanan County paid a combined total of $12,397,000 in property taxes and 4,960 filings paid $28,750,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Buchanan county had 115 religious congregations with an estimated 43,895 members.
19.9% of the Buchanan population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 40% of Buchanan County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 457 votes.
At $46,516 the median income is 86.9% of the Missouri average. An estimated 1,601 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Buchanan, the equivalant of around 3.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Buchanan County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
12,338	Manufacturing
7,704	Health care and social assistance
6,876	Food manufacturing
5,467	Retail trade
4,062	Accommodation and food services
3,847	Food services and drinking places
3,558	Restaurants and other eating places
2,320	Ambulatory health care services
1,984	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,874	Full-service restaurants
1,754	Finance and insurance
1,711	Wholesale trade
1,660	General merchandise stores
1,550	Limited-service restaurants
1,548	Transportation and warehousing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.42% in Buchanan County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 64505, 64501, 64504, 64506 and 64507).

In 2018 14.25% of listings in Buchanan County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 64505, 64504, 64501, 64506 and 64507) dropped their price.

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