The population of Stark county is estimated at 373,528. In 2017 there were 4,163 births and 4,077 deaths in Stark county. Stark county has 72,689 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 33,676 that are owned free and clear and 44,724 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Stark County filed 182,820 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.3% of all Ohio filings and 0.123% of the entire nation. Stark had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,505,421,000 on earned income of $9,822,530,000. Other notable statistics from Stark County were 7,730 unemployment claims which collected a total of $32,533,000 and 33,140 charitable contributions valued at $161,598,000. 36,930 filings from Stark County paid a combined total of $129,346,000 in property taxes and 31,470 filings paid $176,224,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Stark county had 436 religious congregations with an estimated 176,398 members.
22.8% of the Stark population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Stark County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 5,752 votes.
At $51,214 the median income is 94.7% of the Ohio average. An estimated 9,809 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Stark, the equivalant of around 5.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Stark County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
28,010	Health care and social assistance
22,667	Manufacturing
19,983	Retail trade
13,844	Accommodation and food services
13,335	Food services and drinking places
12,692	Restaurants and other eating places
9,861	Ambulatory health care services
8,450	Hospitals
8,248	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
7,896	General medical and surgical hospitals
7,896	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
7,450	Administrative and support services
6,480	Full-service restaurants
5,899	Finance and insurance
4,770	Other services (except public administration)

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.84% in Stark County (averaging across 14 zip codes a sample of which are; 44709, 44714, 44647, 44646 and 44641).

In 2018 16.93% of listings in Stark County (averaging across 16 zip codes a sample of which are; 44646, 44714 and 44710) dropped their price.

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