The population of Berks county is estimated at 415,732. In 2017 there were 4,696 births and 3,774 deaths in Berks county. Berks county has 75,656 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 34,997 that are owned free and clear and 43,703 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Berks County filed 203,120 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.3% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.136% of the entire nation. Berks had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,904,103,000 on earned income of $12,035,236,000. Other notable statistics from Berks County were 11,590 unemployment claims which collected a total of $53,304,000 and 48,080 charitable contributions valued at $184,120,000. 57,070 filings from Berks County paid a combined total of $317,239,000 in property taxes and 48,480 filings paid $301,690,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Berks county had 402 religious congregations with an estimated 196,956 members.
23.9% of the Berks population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 14.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Berks County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 12,681 votes.
At $61,022 the median income is 103.1% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 9,773 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Berks, the equivalant of around 4.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Berks County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
29,439	Manufacturing
25,605	Health care and social assistance
20,219	Retail trade
12,294	Accommodation and food services
11,145	Food services and drinking places
9,960	Restaurants and other eating places
8,428	Ambulatory health care services
8,156	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
7,898	Hospitals
7,553	Administrative and support services
6,912	Wholesale trade
6,121	Nursing and residential care facilities
6,017	Finance and insurance
5,482	Full-service restaurants
4,884	Transportation and warehousing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.58% in Berks County (averaging across 17 zip codes a sample of which are; 19608, 19522, 19602, 19565 and 19540).

In 2018 14.84% of listings in Berks County (averaging across 21 zip codes a sample of which are; 19605, 19601, 19608, 19609 and 19607) dropped their price.

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