The population of Santa Fe county is estimated at 147,943. In 2017 there were 1,287 births and 1,173 deaths in Santa Fe county. Santa Fe county has 28,875 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 14,003 that are owned free and clear and 19,085 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Santa Fe County filed 75,700 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 8.3% of all New Mexico filings and 0.051% of the entire nation. Santa Fe had a combined total federal tax liability of $906,886,000 on earned income of $5,356,593,000. Other notable statistics from Santa Fe County were 1,730 unemployment claims which collected a total of $8,552,000 and 18,980 charitable contributions valued at $128,091,000. 20,600 filings from Santa Fe County paid a combined total of $67,815,000 in property taxes and 17,040 filings paid $163,637,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Santa Fe county had 134 religious congregations with an estimated 87,490 members.
41.4% of the Santa Fe population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 47% of Santa Fe County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 2,458 votes.
At $58,639 the median income is 124.5% of the New Mexico average. An estimated 3,718 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Santa Fe, the equivalant of around 5.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Santa Fe County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,049	Accommodation and food services
8,981	Retail trade
8,697	Health care and social assistance
5,649	Food services and drinking places
5,324	Restaurants and other eating places
3,541	Ambulatory health care services
3,400	Accommodation
3,376	Traveler accommodation
3,369	Full-service restaurants
2,604	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,892	Other services (except public administration)
1,851	Finance and insurance
1,737	Individual and family services
1,735	Food and beverage stores
1,603	General merchandise stores

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