The population of Monmouth county is estimated at 626,782 where 493,975 speak English exclusively and 4,257 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 5,857 births and 5,725 deaths in Monmouth county. Monmouth county has 131,005 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 44,152 that are owned free and clear and 58,826 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Monmouth County filed 321,630 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 7.3% of all New Jersey filings and 0.216% of the entire nation. Monmouth had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $6,365,335,000 on earned income of $33,243,965,000. Other notable statistics from Monmouth County were 16,480 unemployment claims which collected a total of $106,522,000 and 138,600 charitable contributions valued at $529,416,000. 142,700 filings from Monmouth County paid a combined total of $1,405,127,000 in property taxes and 114,310 filings paid $1,138,225,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Monmouth county had 397 religious congregations with an estimated 360,391 members.
44.0% of the Monmouth population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 50% of Monmouth County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 42,531 votes.
At $97,627 the median income is 121.9% of the New Jersey average. An estimated 13,613 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Monmouth, the equivalant of around 4.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Monmouth County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
40,905	Health care and social assistance
38,150	Retail trade
23,082	Accommodation and food services
21,668	Food services and drinking places
20,213	Professional, scientific, and technical services
18,485	Ambulatory health care services
18,469	Restaurants and other eating places
12,558	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
11,788	Administrative and support services
11,671	Full-service restaurants
11,000	Finance and insurance
9,749	Information
9,099	Hospitals
9,099	General medical and surgical hospitals
9,099	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.27% in Monmouth County (averaging across 25 zip codes a sample of which are; 7760, 8514, 7727, 7750 and 7739).

In 2018 15.47% of listings in Monmouth County (averaging across 34 zip codes a sample of which are; 7730, 7760, 7740, 7733 and 7735) dropped their price.

Interested in adding housing statistics for Monmouth County to your website? Click here for the QuantaLoan.com county widget code for Monmouth, NewJersey.