The population of Washoe county is estimated at 452,429 where 306,706 speak English exclusively and 1,913 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 5,597 births and 3,881 deaths in Washoe county. Washoe county has 73,653 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 22,025 that are owned free and clear and 67,767 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Washoe County filed 223,790 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 16.2% of all Nevada filings and 0.150% of the entire nation. Washoe had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,080,814,000 on earned income of $16,715,096,000. Other notable statistics from Washoe County were 8,740 unemployment claims which collected a total of $36,951,000 and 45,500 charitable contributions valued at $350,910,000. 51,460 filings from Washoe County paid a combined total of $202,842,000 in property taxes and 45,570 filings paid $466,252,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Washoe county had 214 religious congregations with an estimated 124,506 members.
29.8% of the Washoe population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Washoe County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 22,365 votes.
At $61,506 the median income is 106.2% of the Nevada average. An estimated 10,001 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Washoe, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Washoe County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
28,138	Accommodation and food services
21,603	Retail trade
14,819	Accommodation
14,643	Traveler accommodation
13,974	Manufacturing
13,843	Casino hotels
13,516	Health care and social assistance
13,319	Food services and drinking places
12,044	Employment services
11,692	Restaurants and other eating places
9,029	Professional, scientific, and technical services
8,808	Ambulatory health care services
8,092	Hospitals
8,064	Wholesale trade
6,585	Temporary help services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.20% in Washoe County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 89431, 89434, 89511, 89523 and 89506).

In 2018 20.26% of listings in Washoe County (averaging across 15 zip codes a sample of which are; 89436, 89506, 89503 and 89434) dropped their price.

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