The population of Grand Forks county is estimated at 70,596. In 2017 there were 1,033 births and 485 deaths in Grand Forks county. Grand Forks county has 9,560 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,784 that are owned free and clear and 13,073 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Grand Forks County filed 32,840 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 9.1% of all North Dakota filings and 0.022% of the entire nation. Grand Forks had a combined total federal tax liability of $335,430,000 on earned income of $2,139,749,000. Other notable statistics from Grand Forks County were 980 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,781,000 and 4,560 charitable contributions valued at $32,284,000. 5,080 filings from Grand Forks County paid a combined total of $21,323,000 in property taxes and 4,250 filings paid $32,034,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Grand Forks county had 77 religious congregations with an estimated 35,953 members.
34.0% of the Grand Forks population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Grand Forks County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 85 votes.
At $50,933 the median income is 81.6% of the North Dakota average. An estimated 856 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Grand Forks, the equivalant of around 2.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 2.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Grand Forks County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,865	Health care and social assistance
5,860	Retail trade
4,191	Accommodation and food services
3,405	Food services and drinking places
2,906	Restaurants and other eating places
2,166	Manufacturing
1,568	Full-service restaurants
1,483	General merchandise stores
1,473	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,450	Transportation and warehousing
1,287	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,235	Wholesale trade
981	Finance and insurance
981	Arts, entertainment, and recreation
827	Other services (except public administration)

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