The population of Salem county is estimated at 63,158. In 2017 there were 644 births and 769 deaths in Salem county. Salem county has 11,969 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,122 that are owned free and clear and 7,199 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Salem County filed 30,320 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.7% of all New Jersey filings and 0.020% of the entire nation. Salem had a combined total federal tax liability of $259,739,000 on earned income of $1,809,561,000. Other notable statistics from Salem County were 2,190 unemployment claims which collected a total of $14,154,000 and 8,740 charitable contributions valued at $27,366,000. 10,120 filings from Salem County paid a combined total of $67,921,000 in property taxes and 8,050 filings paid $50,795,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Salem county had 96 religious congregations with an estimated 20,855 members.
21.0% of the Salem population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Salem County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 104 votes.
At $61,322 the median income is 76.6% of the New Jersey average. An estimated 1,830 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Salem, the equivalant of around 6.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Salem County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,312	Health care and social assistance
2,617	Manufacturing
1,932	Retail trade
1,691	Accommodation and food services
1,511	Food services and drinking places
1,164	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,146	Restaurants and other eating places
1,118	Chemical manufacturing
1,025	Administrative and support services
1,016	Nursing and residential care facilities
961	Ambulatory health care services
872	Transportation and warehousing
713	Wholesale trade
668	Food and beverage stores
588	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.97% in Salem County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 8069, 8070, 8318, 8098 and 8079).

In 2018 20.25% of listings in Salem County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 8079, 8098, 8070, 8318 and 8069) dropped their price.

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