The population of Jefferson county is estimated at 223,413. In 2017 there were 2,546 births and 2,087 deaths in Jefferson county. Jefferson county has 49,458 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 17,378 that are owned free and clear and 14,864 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Jefferson County filed 106,120 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.8% of all Missouri filings and 0.071% of the entire nation. Jefferson had a combined total federal tax liability of $799,701,000 on earned income of $5,836,870,000. Other notable statistics from Jefferson County were 4,010 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,669,000 and 23,710 charitable contributions valued at $77,867,000. 28,590 filings from Jefferson County paid a combined total of $64,259,000 in property taxes and 26,090 filings paid $166,585,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Jefferson county had 162 religious congregations with an estimated 79,939 members.
19.8% of the Jefferson population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 47% of Jefferson County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 8,356 votes.
At $62,334 the median income is 116.5% of the Missouri average. An estimated 4,160 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Jefferson, the equivalant of around 3.6% 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 Jefferson County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,756	Retail trade
6,119	Health care and social assistance
5,461	Accommodation and food services
5,276	Food services and drinking places
5,076	Restaurants and other eating places
4,369	Manufacturing
3,288	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,106	Administrative and support services
2,663	Limited-service restaurants
2,231	Full-service restaurants
1,818	General merchandise stores
1,716	Ambulatory health care services
1,558	Other services (except public administration)
1,302	Wholesale trade
1,257	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.22% in Jefferson County (averaging across 10 zip codes a sample of which are; 63012, 63050, 63052, 63016 and 63010).

In 2018 13.76% of listings in Jefferson County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 63016, 63020, 63070, 63049 and 63051) dropped their price.

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