The population of Rensselaer county is estimated at 159,736. In 2017 there were 1,600 births and 1,567 deaths in Rensselaer county. Rensselaer county has 28,302 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,034 that are owned free and clear and 23,366 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Rensselaer County filed 78,450 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.8% of all New York filings and 0.053% of the entire nation. Rensselaer had a combined total federal tax liability of $693,478,000 on earned income of $4,722,021,000. Other notable statistics from Rensselaer County were 2,630 unemployment claims which collected a total of $12,260,000 and 19,480 charitable contributions valued at $52,411,000. 23,210 filings from Rensselaer County paid a combined total of $147,805,000 in property taxes and 19,610 filings paid $112,348,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Rensselaer county had 146 religious congregations with an estimated 63,516 members.
29.8% of the Rensselaer population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of Rensselaer County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 2,659 votes.
At $63,457 the median income is 98.0% of the New York average. An estimated 3,669 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Rensselaer, the equivalant of around 4.5% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Rensselaer County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,708	Health care and social assistance
5,814	Retail trade
4,009	Accommodation and food services
3,840	Food services and drinking places
3,464	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,383	Manufacturing
3,075	Restaurants and other eating places
2,831	Ambulatory health care services
1,682	Full-service restaurants
1,361	Other services (except public administration)
1,304	Home health care services
1,255	Finance and insurance
1,200	Wholesale trade
1,158	Computer systems design and related services
1,038	Transportation and warehousing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.35% in Rensselaer County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 12180, 12033, 12182 and 12144).

In 2018 12.08% of listings in Rensselaer County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 12198, 12144, 12018, 12061 and 12123) dropped their price.

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