The population of Blair county is estimated at 123,927. In 2017 there were 1,285 births and 1,649 deaths in Blair county. Blair county has 21,343 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 15,310 that are owned free and clear and 15,506 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Blair County filed 59,120 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.0% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.040% of the entire nation. Blair had a combined total federal tax liability of $477,342,000 on earned income of $3,045,292,000. Other notable statistics from Blair County were 4,140 unemployment claims which collected a total of $18,835,000 and 6,770 charitable contributions valued at $36,741,000. 7,820 filings from Blair County paid a combined total of $23,782,000 in property taxes and 6,470 filings paid $38,050,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Blair county had 222 religious congregations with an estimated 66,633 members.
20.3% of the Blair population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Blair County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 4,398 votes.
At $46,072 the median income is 77.9% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 2,919 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Blair, 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 5.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Blair County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
11,356	Health care and social assistance
8,383	Retail trade
6,943	Manufacturing
4,634	Accommodation and food services
4,267	Food services and drinking places
3,942	Restaurants and other eating places
3,599	Hospitals
3,599	General medical and surgical hospitals
3,586	Transportation and warehousing
3,248	Ambulatory health care services
2,449	Nursing and residential care facilities
2,366	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,234	Full-service restaurants
2,204	Administrative and support services
1,832	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.47% in Blair County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 16602, 16601 and 16648).

In 2018 17.04% of listings in Blair County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 16648, 16601 and 16602) dropped their price.

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