The population of Monroe county is estimated at 747,326 where 614,670 speak English exclusively and 5,000 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 8,065 births and 6,657 deaths in Monroe county. Monroe county has 139,489 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 53,636 that are owned free and clear and 107,297 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Monroe County filed 361,750 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.8% of all New York filings and 0.243% of the entire nation. Monroe had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,578,811,000 on earned income of $22,662,042,000. Other notable statistics from Monroe County were 10,980 unemployment claims which collected a total of $49,984,000 and 101,830 charitable contributions valued at $427,060,000. 112,120 filings from Monroe County paid a combined total of $776,527,000 in property taxes and 92,120 filings paid $451,629,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Monroe county had 571 religious congregations with an estimated 345,007 members.
37.1% of the Monroe population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 43% of Monroe County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 11,239 votes.
At $57,660 the median income is 89.0% of the New York average. An estimated 18,193 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Monroe, the equivalant of around 5.0% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Monroe County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
63,159	Health care and social assistance
40,491	Retail trade
38,958	Manufacturing
26,555	Accommodation and food services
26,044	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
25,234	Administrative and support services
24,555	Food services and drinking places
21,976	Restaurants and other eating places
21,387	Professional, scientific, and technical services
20,424	General medical and surgical hospitals
20,424	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
17,621	Ambulatory health care services
14,838	Nursing and residential care facilities
12,428	Food and beverage stores
11,644	Grocery stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.74% in Monroe County (averaging across 13 zip codes a sample of which are; 14534, 14580, 14610, 14624 and 14616).

In 2018 16.22% of listings in Monroe County (averaging across 17 zip codes a sample of which are; 14617, 14624, 14618, 14622 and 14610) dropped their price.

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