The population of Darke county is estimated at 51,636. In 2017 there were 594 births and 592 deaths in Darke county. Darke county has 9,921 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,722 that are owned free and clear and 5,286 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Darke County filed 25,090 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.5% of all Ohio filings and 0.017% of the entire nation. Darke had a combined total federal tax liability of $160,157,000 on earned income of $1,197,896,000. Other notable statistics from Darke County were 610 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,428,000 and 2,910 charitable contributions valued at $14,218,000. 3,560 filings from Darke County paid a combined total of $7,315,000 in property taxes and 2,830 filings paid $14,133,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Darke county had 93 religious congregations with an estimated 22,120 members.
14.2% of the Darke population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 48% of Darke County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 193 votes.
At $53,954 the median income is 99.8% of the Ohio average. An estimated 1,112 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Darke, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Darke County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
4,475	Manufacturing
2,284	Health care and social assistance
1,956	Retail trade
1,219	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
1,019	Transportation and warehousing
1,015	Accommodation and food services
953	Food services and drinking places
899	Restaurants and other eating places
814	Truck transportation
628	Wholesale trade
579	Ambulatory health care services
572	General freight trucking
557	Finance and insurance
528	General freight trucking, long-distance
498	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 14.50% of listings in Darke County.

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