The population of Mercer county is estimated at 40,710. In 2017 there were 596 births and 394 deaths in Mercer county. Mercer county has 7,470 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,879 that are owned free and clear and 3,183 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Mercer County filed 21,120 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.4% of all Ohio filings and 0.014% of the entire nation. Mercer had a combined total federal tax liability of $164,545,000 on earned income of $1,150,153,000. Other notable statistics from Mercer County were 360 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,349,000 and 2,690 charitable contributions valued at $13,680,000. 3,320 filings from Mercer County paid a combined total of $8,813,000 in property taxes and 2,610 filings paid $13,925,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Mercer county had 71 religious congregations with an estimated 32,703 members.
16.6% of the Mercer population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 52% of Mercer County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 154 votes.
At $60,055 the median income is 111.1% of the Ohio average. An estimated 729 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Mercer, the equivalant of around 3.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Mercer County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,807	Manufacturing
2,104	Health care and social assistance
1,930	Retail trade
1,192	Accommodation and food services
1,144	Food services and drinking places
1,064	Restaurants and other eating places
1,039	Wholesale trade
864	Food manufacturing
836	Transportation and warehousing
807	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
776	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
770	Administrative and support services
746	Truck transportation
677	Ambulatory health care services
599	General freight trucking

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.87% in Mercer County.

In 2018 6.86% of listings in Mercer County.

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