The population of Sussex county is estimated at 142,288. In 2017 there were 1,183 births and 1,239 deaths in Sussex county. Sussex county has 36,490 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 9,666 that are owned free and clear and 8,596 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Sussex County filed 72,640 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.7% of all New Jersey filings and 0.049% of the entire nation. Sussex had a combined total federal tax liability of $916,180,000 on earned income of $5,791,917,000. Other notable statistics from Sussex County were 4,640 unemployment claims which collected a total of $29,988,000 and 29,720 charitable contributions valued at $81,893,000. 33,390 filings from Sussex County paid a combined total of $287,957,000 in property taxes and 27,950 filings paid $218,401,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Sussex county had 97 religious congregations with an estimated 71,806 members.
34.4% of the Sussex population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 52% of Sussex County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 12,156 votes.
At $89,744 the median income is 112.0% of the New Jersey average. An estimated 3,296 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Sussex, 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 Sussex County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,319	Health care and social assistance
5,658	Retail trade
3,455	Accommodation and food services
2,975	Food services and drinking places
2,572	Restaurants and other eating places
2,262	Nursing and residential care facilities
2,145	Food and beverage stores
2,062	Ambulatory health care services
1,968	Grocery stores
1,932	Manufacturing
1,876	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
1,828	Arts, entertainment, and recreation
1,745	Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries
1,503	Full-service restaurants
1,476	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.62% in Sussex County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 7461, 7462, 7826 and 7871).

In 2018 15.56% of listings in Sussex County (averaging across 13 zip codes a sample of which are; 7419, 7821, 7874 and 7843) dropped their price.

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