The population of Carbon county is estimated at 63,515. In 2017 there were 580 births and 775 deaths in Carbon county. Carbon county has 13,001 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 7,642 that are owned free and clear and 6,041 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Carbon County filed 31,190 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.5% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.021% of the entire nation. Carbon had a combined total federal tax liability of $238,204,000 on earned income of $1,640,818,000. Other notable statistics from Carbon County were 2,460 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,122,000 and 5,210 charitable contributions valued at $13,993,000. 6,550 filings from Carbon County paid a combined total of $29,627,000 in property taxes and 5,690 filings paid $34,159,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Carbon county had 89 religious congregations with an estimated 29,400 members.
16.0% of the Carbon population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Carbon County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 4,489 votes.
At $51,395 the median income is 86.9% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 1,753 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Carbon, the equivalant of around 5.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Carbon County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,302	Health care and social assistance
2,142	Retail trade
1,939	Accommodation and food services
1,678	Manufacturing
969	Restaurants and other eating places
966	Arts, entertainment, and recreation
954	Ambulatory health care services
700	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
667	Administrative and support services
604	Full-service restaurants
507	Food and beverage stores
460	Grocery stores
434	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
405	Other general merchandise stores
405	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.19% in Carbon County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 18229, 18071, 18235 and 18210).

In 2018 12.51% of listings in Carbon County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 18229, 18235, 18071 and 18210) dropped their price.

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