The population of Seward county is estimated at 17,085. In 2017 there were 172 births and 160 deaths in Seward county. Seward county has 2,984 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 1,684 that are owned free and clear and 1,598 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Seward County filed 7,650 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.9% of all Nebraska filings and 0.005% of the entire nation. Seward had a combined total federal tax liability of $62,642,000 on earned income of $495,996,000. Other notable statistics from Seward County were 120 unemployment claims which collected a total of $368,000 and 1,980 charitable contributions valued at $12,809,000. 2,020 filings from Seward County paid a combined total of $6,599,000 in property taxes and 1,580 filings paid $9,328,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Seward county had 41 religious congregations with an estimated 11,475 members.
28.1% of the Seward population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Seward County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 309 votes.
At $68,762 the median income is 114.8% of the Nebraska average. An estimated 232 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Seward, the equivalant of around 2.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 2.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Seward County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,197	Manufacturing
761	Health care and social assistance
521	Retail trade
453	Accommodation and food services
347	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
318	Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities)
284	Restaurants and other eating places
258	Wholesale trade
249	Transportation and warehousing
206	Finance and insurance
181	General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload
181	General freight trucking, long-distance
171	Limited-service restaurants
156	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
151	Ambulatory health care services

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