The population of Yellowstone county is estimated at 157,648. In 2017 there were 2,004 births and 1,484 deaths in Yellowstone county. Yellowstone county has 28,347 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,182 that are owned free and clear and 19,143 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Yellowstone County filed 77,220 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 15.4% of all Montana filings and 0.052% of the entire nation. Yellowstone had a combined total federal tax liability of $744,500,000 on earned income of $4,842,572,000. Other notable statistics from Yellowstone County were 3,630 unemployment claims which collected a total of $14,670,000 and 19,790 charitable contributions valued at $99,458,000. 23,700 filings from Yellowstone County paid a combined total of $66,946,000 in property taxes and 19,870 filings paid $141,923,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Yellowstone county had 164 religious congregations with an estimated 57,904 members.
30.2% of the Yellowstone population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of Yellowstone County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 3,886 votes.
At $58,031 the median income is 109.0% of the Montana average. An estimated 2,858 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Yellowstone, the equivalant of around 3.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Yellowstone County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
12,676	Health care and social assistance
10,298	Retail trade
9,047	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
8,869	Administrative and support services
7,935	Accommodation and food services
6,830	Food services and drinking places
5,682	Restaurants and other eating places
4,690	Wholesale trade
4,102	Finance and insurance
4,002	Ambulatory health care services
3,578	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,185	Manufacturing
3,155	Full-service restaurants
3,011	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
3,008	Nursing and residential care facilities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.42% in Yellowstone County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 59106, 59105, 59102 and 59101).

In 2018 15.99% of listings in Yellowstone County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 59105, 59106, 59044, 59102 and 59101) dropped their price.

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