The population of Newton county is estimated at 58,219. In 2017 there were 675 births and 600 deaths in Newton county. Newton county has 10,199 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,129 that are owned free and clear and 5,693 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Newton County filed 24,350 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.9% of all Missouri filings and 0.016% of the entire nation. Newton had a combined total federal tax liability of $193,562,000 on earned income of $1,285,292,000. Other notable statistics from Newton County were 830 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,304,000 and 3,490 charitable contributions valued at $27,109,000. 3,910 filings from Newton County paid a combined total of $7,646,000 in property taxes and 3,080 filings paid $19,738,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Newton county had 100 religious congregations with an estimated 27,743 members.
19.4% of the Newton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Newton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,426 votes.
At $49,161 the median income is 91.9% of the Missouri average. An estimated 999 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Newton, 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 4.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Newton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,401	Health care and social assistance
2,499	Manufacturing
2,090	Retail trade
1,684	Accommodation and food services
1,606	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,283	Food services and drinking places
1,200	Wholesale trade
1,178	Restaurants and other eating places
937	Ambulatory health care services
728	Transportation and warehousing
663	Home health care services
637	Information
571	Full-service restaurants
565	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
552	Telecommunications

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.56% in Newton County.

In 2018 15.95% of listings in Newton County.

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