The population of Licking county is estimated at 171,822. In 2017 there were 1,970 births and 1,562 deaths in Licking county. Licking county has 34,761 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,147 that are owned free and clear and 17,081 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Licking County filed 82,590 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.5% of all Ohio filings and 0.055% of the entire nation. Licking had a combined total federal tax liability of $693,502,000 on earned income of $4,772,010,000. Other notable statistics from Licking County were 2,170 unemployment claims which collected a total of $9,476,000 and 19,310 charitable contributions valued at $77,276,000. 22,840 filings from Licking County paid a combined total of $85,096,000 in property taxes and 20,750 filings paid $127,524,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Licking county had 195 religious congregations with an estimated 56,932 members.
24.6% of the Licking population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Licking County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,976 votes.
At $62,658 the median income is 115.9% of the Ohio average. An estimated 3,758 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Licking, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Licking County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
7,809	Manufacturing
7,491	Health care and social assistance
6,954	Retail trade
4,975	Accommodation and food services
4,597	Food services and drinking places
4,328	Restaurants and other eating places
3,881	Finance and insurance
2,790	Ambulatory health care services
2,541	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,290	Administrative and support services
2,106	Limited-service restaurants
2,017	Full-service restaurants
1,795	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,584	Transportation and warehousing
1,574	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.55% in Licking County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 43023).

In 2018 13.31% of listings in Licking County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 43031 and 43023) dropped their price.

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