The population of Dutchess county is estimated at 294,567. In 2017 there were 2,576 births and 2,611 deaths in Dutchess county. Dutchess county has 53,799 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 21,269 that are owned free and clear and 32,897 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Dutchess County filed 141,840 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.5% of all New York filings and 0.095% of the entire nation. Dutchess had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,715,059,000 on earned income of $10,667,504,000. Other notable statistics from Dutchess County were 3,860 unemployment claims which collected a total of $19,944,000 and 49,560 charitable contributions valued at $175,746,000. 52,240 filings from Dutchess County paid a combined total of $421,888,000 in property taxes and 43,110 filings paid $350,216,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Dutchess county had 222 religious congregations with an estimated 159,189 members.
34.6% of the Dutchess population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of Dutchess County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 6,057 votes.
At $76,955 the median income is 118.8% of the New York average. An estimated 6,267 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Dutchess, 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 4.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Dutchess County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
18,607	Health care and social assistance
14,155	Retail trade
9,107	Accommodation and food services
8,544	Manufacturing
8,369	Food services and drinking places
7,534	Restaurants and other eating places
7,002	Ambulatory health care services
6,169	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,941	Nursing and residential care facilities
4,468	Full-service restaurants
4,010	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,630	Food and beverage stores
3,350	Grocery stores
3,204	Employment services
3,163	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.78% in Dutchess County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 12570, 12538, 12590, 12508 and 12533).

In 2018 12.21% of listings in Dutchess County (averaging across 15 zip codes a sample of which are; 12533, 12590, 12570, 12545 and 12524) dropped their price.

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