The population of Cape Girardeau county is estimated at 78,390. In 2017 there were 897 births and 765 deaths in Cape Girardeau county. Cape Girardeau county has 13,123 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,527 that are owned free and clear and 10,198 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Cape Girardeau County filed 34,840 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.3% of all Missouri filings and 0.023% of the entire nation. Cape Girardeau had a combined total federal tax liability of $316,848,000 on earned income of $2,052,452,000. Other notable statistics from Cape Girardeau County were 1,060 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,105,000 and 6,830 charitable contributions valued at $48,168,000. 7,460 filings from Cape Girardeau County paid a combined total of $14,989,000 in property taxes and 6,080 filings paid $40,828,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Cape Girardeau county had 116 religious congregations with an estimated 58,180 members.
29.8% of the Cape Girardeau population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 47% of Cape Girardeau County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,203 votes.
At $51,955 the median income is 97.1% of the Missouri average. An estimated 1,382 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Cape Girardeau, 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 4.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Cape Girardeau County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
10,920	Health care and social assistance
5,855	Retail trade
4,167	Accommodation and food services
3,700	Manufacturing
3,669	Restaurants and other eating places
2,907	Ambulatory health care services
1,883	Full-service restaurants
1,494	Services for the elderly and persons with disabilities
1,450	Wholesale trade
1,137	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,103	Offices of physicians
1,103	Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists)
1,086	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
1,003	Transportation and warehousing
955	Finance and insurance

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