The population of Bergen county is estimated at 942,387 where 529,525 speak English exclusively and 17,754 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 9,389 births and 7,093 deaths in Bergen county. Bergen county has 154,617 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 67,349 that are owned free and clear and 113,764 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Bergen County filed 465,350 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 10.6% of all New Jersey filings and 0.312% of the entire nation. Bergen had an astronomical combined total federal tax liability of $11,072,358,000 on earned income of $52,651,325,000. Other notable statistics from Bergen County were 21,330 unemployment claims which collected a total of $142,193,000 and 187,210 charitable contributions valued at $1,162,031,000. 184,970 filings from Bergen County paid a combined total of $2,205,785,000 in property taxes and 141,090 filings paid $1,486,585,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Bergen county had 681 religious congregations with an estimated 583,426 members.
47.9% of the Bergen population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of Bergen County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 31,942 votes.
At $93,805 the median income is 117.1% of the New Jersey average. An estimated 18,797 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Bergen, the equivalant of around 3.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Bergen County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
70,990	Health care and social assistance
56,423	Retail trade
37,178	Professional, scientific, and technical services
36,846	Ambulatory health care services
36,346	Wholesale trade
33,434	Manufacturing
30,344	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
29,183	Administrative and support services
28,682	Accommodation and food services
26,161	Food services and drinking places
21,620	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
21,274	Restaurants and other eating places
18,287	Hospitals
16,213	Finance and insurance
15,237	General medical and surgical hospitals

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.62% in Bergen County (averaging across 15 zip codes a sample of which are; 7666, 7621, 7430, 7024 and 7450).

In 2018 15.48% of listings in Bergen County (averaging across 32 zip codes a sample of which are; 7481, 7417, 7663, 7631 and 7407) dropped their price.

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