The population of Flathead county is estimated at 97,693. In 2017 there were 1,177 births and 844 deaths in Flathead county. Flathead county has 17,740 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,797 that are owned free and clear and 10,967 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Flathead County filed 49,260 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 9.8% of all Montana filings and 0.033% of the entire nation. Flathead had a combined total federal tax liability of $441,914,000 on earned income of $2,941,379,000. Other notable statistics from Flathead County were 3,630 unemployment claims which collected a total of $14,121,000 and 12,540 charitable contributions valued at $77,248,000. 14,500 filings from Flathead County paid a combined total of $49,743,000 in property taxes and 11,900 filings paid $100,848,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Flathead county had 127 religious congregations with an estimated 29,456 members.
29.1% of the Flathead population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 47% of Flathead County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 3,679 votes.
At $57,389 the median income is 107.7% of the Montana average. An estimated 2,452 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Flathead, the equivalant of around 5.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Flathead County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
5,537	Health care and social assistance
5,317	Retail trade
4,362	Accommodation and food services
3,453	Food services and drinking places
3,103	Restaurants and other eating places
2,367	Manufacturing
2,057	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,999	Administrative and support services
1,915	Ambulatory health care services
1,649	Full-service restaurants
1,578	Finance and insurance
1,347	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,196	Limited-service restaurants
1,094	Arts, entertainment, and recreation
1,015	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.69% in Flathead County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 59911, 59937 and 59901).

In 2018 9.59% of listings in Flathead County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 59937, 59911, 59912 and 59901) dropped their price.

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