The population of Portage county is estimated at 162,162. In 2017 there were 1,397 births and 1,403 deaths in Portage county. Portage county has 30,789 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,690 that are owned free and clear and 18,743 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Portage County filed 75,930 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.4% of all Ohio filings and 0.051% of the entire nation. Portage had a combined total federal tax liability of $648,865,000 on earned income of $4,358,904,000. Other notable statistics from Portage County were 3,060 unemployment claims which collected a total of $13,589,000 and 15,650 charitable contributions valued at $56,942,000. 18,630 filings from Portage County paid a combined total of $69,772,000 in property taxes and 16,500 filings paid $100,885,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Portage county had 136 religious congregations with an estimated 44,659 members.
27.5% of the Portage population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Portage County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 61 votes.
At $59,490 the median income is 110.0% of the Ohio average. An estimated 4,421 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Portage, the equivalant of around 5.0% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Portage County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,585	Manufacturing
7,363	Retail trade
5,974	Health care and social assistance
4,925	Accommodation and food services
4,496	Food services and drinking places
4,112	Restaurants and other eating places
3,860	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,713	Administrative and support services
3,105	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
2,930	Wholesale trade
2,303	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
2,241	Limited-service restaurants
2,001	Plastics product manufacturing
1,846	General merchandise stores
1,842	Nursing and residential care facilities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.61% in Portage County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 44240, 44260, 44266, 44202 and 44241).

In 2018 15.80% of listings in Portage County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 44241, 44240, 44266, 44260 and 44202) dropped their price.

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