The population of Erie county is estimated at 923,116 where 783,105 speak English exclusively and 10,285 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 10,080 births and 9,638 deaths in Erie county. Erie county has 161,836 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 86,463 that are owned free and clear and 134,865 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Erie County filed 448,110 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.7% of all New York filings and 0.301% of the entire nation. Erie had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $4,411,505,000 on earned income of $27,554,430,000. Other notable statistics from Erie County were 17,150 unemployment claims which collected a total of $78,082,000 and 109,110 charitable contributions valued at $407,160,000. 118,880 filings from Erie County paid a combined total of $692,474,000 in property taxes and 98,220 filings paid $501,800,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Erie county had 689 religious congregations with an estimated 527,375 members.
32.9% of the Erie population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Erie County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 3,417 votes.
At $55,581 the median income is 85.8% of the New York average. An estimated 23,283 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Erie, the equivalant of around 5.2% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Erie County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
74,944	Health care and social assistance
52,423	Retail trade
42,606	Manufacturing
41,143	Accommodation and food services
32,193	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
31,561	Restaurants and other eating places
31,296	Administrative and support services
29,127	Finance and insurance
28,912	Professional, scientific, and technical services
24,215	Ambulatory health care services
19,160	General medical and surgical hospitals
18,454	Wholesale trade
17,197	Full-service restaurants
15,794	Nursing and residential care facilities
14,307	Transportation and warehousing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.74% in Erie County (averaging across 17 zip codes a sample of which are; 14223, 14127, 14051, 14086 and 14226).

In 2018 14.70% of listings in Erie County (averaging across 23 zip codes a sample of which are; 14075, 14043, 14227, 14223 and 14217) dropped their price.

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