The population of Cole county is estimated at 76,775. In 2017 there were 896 births and 671 deaths in Cole county. Cole county has 13,544 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,425 that are owned free and clear and 9,753 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Cole County filed 36,360 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.3% of all Missouri filings and 0.024% of the entire nation. Cole had a combined total federal tax liability of $337,703,000 on earned income of $2,196,319,000. Other notable statistics from Cole County were 820 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,267,000 and 7,120 charitable contributions valued at $53,230,000. 7,760 filings from Cole County paid a combined total of $16,513,000 in property taxes and 6,090 filings paid $36,349,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Cole county had 93 religious congregations with an estimated 52,877 members.
31.4% of the Cole population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Cole County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 203 votes.
At $55,315 the median income is 103.4% of the Missouri average. An estimated 1,140 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Cole, the equivalant of around 2.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Cole County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,480	Health care and social assistance
5,114	Retail trade
3,172	Accommodation and food services
2,691	Food services and drinking places
2,541	Restaurants and other eating places
2,411	Ambulatory health care services
2,293	Manufacturing
2,154	Wholesale trade
1,827	Finance and insurance
1,711	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,643	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
1,587	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,553	Information
1,441	Other services (except public administration)
1,315	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.94% in Cole County.

In 2018 16.55% of listings in Cole County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 65109 and 65101) dropped their price.

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