The population of Washington county is estimated at 61,806. In 2017 there were 575 births and 655 deaths in Washington county. Washington county has 11,188 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,534 that are owned free and clear and 6,420 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Washington County filed 28,300 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.3% of all New York filings and 0.019% of the entire nation. Washington had a combined total federal tax liability of $186,926,000 on earned income of $1,361,538,000. Other notable statistics from Washington County were 1,270 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,574,000 and 4,760 charitable contributions valued at $12,252,000. 6,190 filings from Washington County paid a combined total of $32,202,000 in property taxes and 5,200 filings paid $27,892,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Washington county had 90 religious congregations with an estimated 22,092 members.
19.8% of the Washington population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 36% of Washington County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,138 votes.
At $53,609 the median income is 82.8% of the New York average. An estimated 1,338 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Washington, the equivalant of around 4.7% 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 Washington County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,942	Manufacturing
1,759	Retail trade
1,535	Health care and social assistance
758	Accommodation and food services
740	Nursing and residential care facilities
695	Food services and drinking places
627	Restaurants and other eating places
522	Food and beverage stores
490	Grocery stores
484	Ambulatory health care services
462	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
365	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
358	Limited-service restaurants
316	Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing
311	Social assistance

In 2018 13.61% of listings in Washington County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 12865, 12839, 12834, 12828 and 12816) dropped their price.

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