The population of Albany county is estimated at 309,080 where 254,542 speak English exclusively and 3,167 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 3,078 births and 2,727 deaths in Albany county. Albany county has 50,144 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 22,433 that are owned free and clear and 53,674 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Albany County filed 152,380 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.6% of all New York filings and 0.102% of the entire nation. Albany had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,941,032,000 on earned income of $11,226,068,000. Other notable statistics from Albany County were 3,620 unemployment claims which collected a total of $17,604,000 and 41,720 charitable contributions valued at $197,374,000. 45,700 filings from Albany County paid a combined total of $318,309,000 in property taxes and 38,070 filings paid $241,077,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Albany county had 230 religious congregations with an estimated 137,564 members.
40.5% of the Albany population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of Albany County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 113 votes.
At $65,659 the median income is 101.4% of the New York average. An estimated 6,816 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Albany, the equivalant of around 4.3% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Albany County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
33,297	Health care and social assistance
21,436	Retail trade
15,417	Accommodation and food services
14,737	Professional, scientific, and technical services
13,057	Food services and drinking places
13,049	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
12,859	Finance and insurance
12,576	Administrative and support services
11,378	Hospitals
10,807	Restaurants and other eating places
8,587	Ambulatory health care services
7,912	Insurance carriers and related activities
7,910	Nursing and residential care facilities
7,327	Manufacturing
6,385	Insurance carriers

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.29% in Albany County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 12203, 12047, 12054, 12208 and 12211).

In 2018 15.24% of listings in Albany County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 12077, 12203, 12208, 12205 and 12211) dropped their price.

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