The population of Platte county is estimated at 32,946. In 2017 there were 495 births and 263 deaths in Platte county. Platte county has 5,521 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,692 that are owned free and clear and 3,445 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Platte County filed 16,650 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.9% of all Nebraska filings and 0.011% of the entire nation. Platte had a combined total federal tax liability of $122,760,000 on earned income of $899,391,000. Other notable statistics from Platte County were 360 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,408,000 and 3,280 charitable contributions valued at $16,529,000. 3,340 filings from Platte County paid a combined total of $11,338,000 in property taxes and 2,540 filings paid $13,183,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Platte county had 46 religious congregations with an estimated 26,643 members.
21.5% of the Platte population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 43% of Platte County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 798 votes.
At $57,693 the median income is 96.3% of the Nebraska average. An estimated 493 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Platte, the equivalant of around 2.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Platte County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
5,492	Manufacturing
2,112	Retail trade
1,551	Health care and social assistance
1,414	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,381	Administrative and support services
968	Accommodation and food services
894	Food services and drinking places
880	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
831	Machinery manufacturing
822	Restaurants and other eating places
714	Architectural and structural metals manufacturing
543	Wholesale trade
516	Finance and insurance
485	Employment services
482	Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing

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