Saint Charles County is the wealthiest county in Missouri. Saint Charles is the largest city located within this county.
  The population of Saint Charles county is estimated at 390,795. In 2017 there were 4,521 births and 2,779 deaths in Saint Charles county. Saint Charles county has 87,270 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 20,949 that are owned free and clear and 26,055 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Saint Charles County filed 194,290 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 7.0% of all Missouri filings and 0.130% of the entire nation. Saint Charles had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,071,361,000 on earned income of $13,927,982,000. Other notable statistics from Saint Charles County were 5,640 unemployment claims which collected a total of $16,005,000 and 67,980 charitable contributions valued at $256,267,000. 76,250 filings from Saint Charles County paid a combined total of $256,654,000 in property taxes and 68,550 filings paid $462,931,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Saint Charles county had 224 religious congregations with an estimated 186,493 members.
37.1% of the Saint Charles population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 51% of Saint Charles County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 13,916 votes.
At $81,827 the median income is 152.9% of the Missouri average. An estimated 6,304 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Saint Charles, 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 3.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Saint Charles County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
18,318	Retail trade
16,108	Accommodation and food services
15,694	Health care and social assistance
14,216	Food services and drinking places
13,226	Restaurants and other eating places
10,982	Manufacturing
9,931	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
9,827	Finance and insurance
9,647	Administrative and support services
7,956	Credit intermediation and related activities
6,869	Full-service restaurants
6,210	Professional, scientific, and technical services
5,511	Limited-service restaurants
5,138	Ambulatory health care services
4,305	Wholesale trade

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