The population of Saint Louis county is estimated at 998,216 where 859,179 speak English exclusively and 6,797 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 11,440 births and 9,953 deaths in Saint Louis county. Saint Louis county has 214,135 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 77,802 that are owned free and clear and 112,828 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Saint Louis County filed 500,790 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 18.0% of all Missouri filings and 0.336% of the entire nation. Saint Louis had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $8,420,406,000 on earned income of $44,017,297,000. Other notable statistics from Saint Louis County were 12,800 unemployment claims which collected a total of $39,637,000 and 162,630 charitable contributions valued at $1,363,178,000. 168,310 filings from Saint Louis County paid a combined total of $770,162,000 in property taxes and 137,700 filings paid $995,734,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Saint Louis county had 730 religious congregations with an estimated 516,073 members.
42.8% of the Saint Louis population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 6.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 50% of Saint Louis County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 21,135 votes.
At $64,926 the median income is 121.3% of the Missouri average. An estimated 18,078 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Saint Louis, the equivalant of around 3.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Saint Louis County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
86,410	Health care and social assistance
67,577	Retail trade
47,895	Accommodation and food services
47,810	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
46,440	Professional, scientific, and technical services
46,364	Administrative and support services
42,453	Food services and drinking places
38,645	Restaurants and other eating places
36,009	Finance and insurance
35,884	Manufacturing
30,594	Wholesale trade
29,904	Ambulatory health care services
27,697	Hospitals
21,705	Full-service restaurants
21,294	Employment services

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