The population of Douglas county is estimated at 555,894. In 2017 there were 8,704 births and 3,835 deaths in Douglas county. Douglas county has 96,813 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 30,586 that are owned free and clear and 75,012 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Douglas County filed 266,440 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 29.7% of all Nebraska filings and 0.179% of the entire nation. Douglas had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,270,523,000 on earned income of $19,438,056,000. Other notable statistics from Douglas County were 5,830 unemployment claims which collected a total of $20,566,000 and 73,450 charitable contributions valued at $529,435,000. 78,130 filings from Douglas County paid a combined total of $385,558,000 in property taxes and 66,840 filings paid $419,225,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Douglas county had 422 religious congregations with an estimated 274,980 members.
37.9% of the Douglas population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 39% of Douglas County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 9,030 votes.
At $61,706 the median income is 103.0% of the Nebraska average. An estimated 9,171 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Douglas, the equivalant of around 3.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Douglas County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
55,558	Professional, scientific, and technical services
47,573	Health care and social assistance
36,842	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
36,444	Finance and insurance
36,264	Administrative and support services
34,754	Retail trade
24,758	Accommodation and food services
22,669	Food services and drinking places
20,560	Manufacturing
20,052	Restaurants and other eating places
19,493	Employment services
17,205	Hospitals
16,440	Insurance carriers and related activities
15,917	General medical and surgical hospitals
15,176	Ambulatory health care services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.23% in Douglas County (averaging across 20 zip codes a sample of which are; 68104, 68164, 68137, 68132 and 68116).

In 2018 19.03% of listings in Douglas County (averaging across 22 zip codes a sample of which are; 68132, 68142, 68130 and 68106) dropped their price.

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