The population of Ulster county is estimated at 179,546. In 2017 there were 1,518 births and 1,698 deaths in Ulster county. Ulster county has 31,638 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 17,143 that are owned free and clear and 22,268 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Ulster County filed 86,480 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.9% of all New York filings and 0.058% of the entire nation. Ulster had a combined total federal tax liability of $815,425,000 on earned income of $5,302,407,000. Other notable statistics from Ulster County were 2,880 unemployment claims which collected a total of $13,386,000 and 25,060 charitable contributions valued at $74,858,000. 27,540 filings from Ulster County paid a combined total of $207,889,000 in property taxes and 22,010 filings paid $147,200,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Ulster county had 185 religious congregations with an estimated 75,147 members.
31.4% of the Ulster population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 43% of Ulster County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 4,941 votes.
At $62,531 the median income is 96.5% of the New York average. An estimated 4,097 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ulster, the equivalant of around 4.6% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Ulster County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,991	Health care and social assistance
8,606	Retail trade
6,655	Accommodation and food services
4,922	Food services and drinking places
4,172	Restaurants and other eating places
3,518	Manufacturing
2,790	Ambulatory health care services
2,738	Nursing and residential care facilities
2,569	Full-service restaurants
2,500	Finance and insurance
2,383	Food and beverage stores
2,112	Grocery stores
2,047	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
2,033	Transportation and warehousing
1,777	Social assistance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.91% in Ulster County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 12566, 12401, 12589, 12446 and 12528).

In 2018 14.41% of listings in Ulster County (averaging across 10 zip codes a sample of which are; 12561, 12428, 12401, 12542 and 12566) dropped their price.

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