The population of Hudson county is estimated at 686,391 where 245,418 speak English exclusively and 16,357 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 10,345 births and 4,155 deaths in Hudson county. Hudson county has 59,785 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 19,278 that are owned free and clear and 167,374 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Hudson County filed 332,760 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 7.6% of all New Jersey filings and 0.223% of the entire nation. Hudson had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $4,239,449,000 on earned income of $23,251,706,000. Other notable statistics from Hudson County were 15,450 unemployment claims which collected a total of $93,579,000 and 72,980 charitable contributions valued at $240,007,000. 54,990 filings from Hudson County paid a combined total of $436,568,000 in property taxes and 46,420 filings paid $433,252,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Hudson county had 380 religious congregations with an estimated 370,621 members.
39.3% of the Hudson population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 16.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 29% of Hudson County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 25,321 votes.
At $65,673 the median income is 82.0% of the New Jersey average. An estimated 15,869 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Hudson, the equivalant of around 4.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Hudson County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
36,832	Finance and insurance
26,740	Health care and social assistance
23,126	Retail trade
22,154	Securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investments and related activities
20,189	Transportation and warehousing
16,770	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
15,906	Wholesale trade
15,837	Administrative and support services
15,540	Accommodation and food services
13,469	Food services and drinking places
12,254	Securities and commodity contracts intermediation and brokerage
11,261	Professional, scientific, and technical services
11,118	Restaurants and other eating places
10,636	Ambulatory health care services
9,550	Employment services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.88% in Hudson County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 7047, 7302, 7304, 7305 and 7094).

In 2018 14.90% of listings in Hudson County (averaging across 13 zip codes a sample of which are; 7306, 7087, 7086, 7002 and 7304) dropped their price.

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