The population of Guilford county is estimated at 521,996 where 406,202 speak English exclusively and 5,545 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 6,122 births and 4,416 deaths in Guilford county. Guilford county has 91,279 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 28,290 that are owned free and clear and 77,059 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Guilford County filed 237,800 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.3% of all North Carolina filings and 0.160% of the entire nation. Guilford had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,380,603,000 on earned income of $14,457,409,000. Other notable statistics from Guilford County were 4,380 unemployment claims which collected a total of $12,385,000 and 63,200 charitable contributions valued at $396,563,000. 64,030 filings from Guilford County paid a combined total of $204,059,000 in property taxes and 55,690 filings paid $387,364,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Guilford county had 683 religious congregations with an estimated 236,061 members.
34.9% of the Guilford population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 48% of Guilford County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 558 votes.
At $52,284 the median income is 99.0% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 12,546 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Guilford, the equivalant of around 4.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Guilford County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
33,134	Health care and social assistance
32,428	Manufacturing
32,096	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
31,484	Administrative and support services
26,619	Retail trade
22,863	Accommodation and food services
20,407	Food services and drinking places
18,399	Restaurants and other eating places
16,822	Employment services
14,160	Wholesale trade
13,849	Finance and insurance
13,344	Transportation and warehousing
12,824	Ambulatory health care services
9,426	Full-service restaurants
8,607	Services to buildings and dwellings

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.80% in Guilford County (averaging across 15 zip codes a sample of which are; 27265, 27214, 27405, 27358 and 27407).

In 2018 11.51% of listings in Guilford County (averaging across 19 zip codes a sample of which are; 27408, 27410, 27403, 27409 and 27265) dropped their price.

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