The population of Ocean county is estimated at 592,944 where 474,451 speak English exclusively and 4,027 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 8,511 births and 6,999 deaths in Ocean county. Ocean county has 116,259 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 63,127 that are owned free and clear and 41,725 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Ocean County filed 286,100 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 6.5% of all New Jersey filings and 0.192% of the entire nation. Ocean had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,834,305,000 on earned income of $18,828,772,000. Other notable statistics from Ocean County were 17,350 unemployment claims which collected a total of $104,651,000 and 103,190 charitable contributions valued at $371,237,000. 110,830 filings from Ocean County paid a combined total of $771,799,000 in property taxes and 89,010 filings paid $721,901,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Ocean county had 302 religious congregations with an estimated 275,856 members.
28.4% of the Ocean population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Ocean County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 22,160 votes.
At $70,493 the median income is 88.0% of the New Jersey average. An estimated 13,066 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ocean, the equivalant of around 4.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Ocean County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
30,984	Health care and social assistance
26,568	Retail trade
12,911	Accommodation and food services
12,543	Ambulatory health care services
12,141	Food services and drinking places
10,636	Restaurants and other eating places
7,812	Nursing and residential care facilities
7,136	Food and beverage stores
6,479	Full-service restaurants
6,009	Grocery stores
5,988	Professional, scientific, and technical services
5,481	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
5,433	Other services (except public administration)
5,339	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
5,177	Administrative and support services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.22% in Ocean County (averaging across 20 zip codes a sample of which are; 8087, 8701, 8527, 8734 and 8751).

In 2018 15.68% of listings in Ocean County (averaging across 24 zip codes a sample of which are; 8722, 8092, 8533, 8758 and 8527) dropped their price.

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