The population of Jackson county is estimated at 693,115. In 2017 there were 9,329 births and 6,360 deaths in Jackson county. Jackson county has 124,016 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 44,781 that are owned free and clear and 106,007 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Jackson County filed 329,590 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 11.9% of all Missouri filings and 0.221% of the entire nation. Jackson had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,884,732,000 on earned income of $18,680,376,000. Other notable statistics from Jackson County were 12,310 unemployment claims which collected a total of $35,300,000 and 72,360 charitable contributions valued at $418,271,000. 78,690 filings from Jackson County paid a combined total of $258,231,000 in property taxes and 67,850 filings paid $415,101,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Jackson county had 812 religious congregations with an estimated 355,967 members.
30.2% of the Jackson population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Jackson County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 12,791 votes.
At $52,585 the median income is 98.3% of the Missouri average. An estimated 15,851 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Jackson, the equivalant of around 4.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Jackson County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
54,553	Health care and social assistance
34,276	Retail trade
30,594	Accommodation and food services
26,781	Food services and drinking places
26,478	Finance and insurance
25,870	Manufacturing
24,922	Professional, scientific, and technical services
23,748	Restaurants and other eating places
19,635	General medical and surgical hospitals
16,406	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
15,486	Administrative and support services
15,145	Ambulatory health care services
14,853	Information
13,471	Full-service restaurants
12,116	Insurance carriers and related activities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.85% in Jackson County (averaging across 35 zip codes a sample of which are; 64055, 64108, 64116, 64133 and 64034).

In 2018 16.97% of listings in Jackson County (averaging across 42 zip codes a sample of which are; 64050, 64086 and 64151) dropped their price.

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