The population of Allegheny county is estimated at 1,227,553 where 1,082,409 speak English exclusively and 6,017 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 13,149 births and 13,699 deaths in Allegheny county. Allegheny county has 220,518 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 124,875 that are owned free and clear and 188,567 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Allegheny County filed 624,460 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 10.1% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.419% of the entire nation. Allegheny had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $7,724,190,000 on earned income of $44,078,515,000. Other notable statistics from Allegheny County were 33,930 unemployment claims which collected a total of $180,871,000 and 145,870 charitable contributions valued at $731,352,000. 159,070 filings from Allegheny County paid a combined total of $912,758,000 in property taxes and 131,050 filings paid $778,343,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Allegheny county had 1,148 religious congregations with an estimated 740,979 members.
40.0% of the Allegheny population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 5.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 52% of Allegheny County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 28,502 votes.
At $58,547 the median income is 99.0% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 30,713 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Allegheny, the equivalant of around 4.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Allegheny County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
123,336	Health care and social assistance
72,737	Retail trade
59,880	Professional, scientific, and technical services
57,039	Accommodation and food services
52,222	Food services and drinking places
48,192	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
46,671	Finance and insurance
46,413	Administrative and support services
45,868	Ambulatory health care services
44,308	Restaurants and other eating places
36,428	Manufacturing
32,421	General medical and surgical hospitals
27,178	Full-service restaurants
21,313	Nursing and residential care facilities
21,265	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.81% in Allegheny County (averaging across 42 zip codes a sample of which are; 15108, 15146, 15221 and 15201).

In 2018 16.90% of listings in Allegheny County (averaging across 55 zip codes a sample of which are; 15122, 15090, 15147 and 15218) dropped their price.

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