The population of Centre county is estimated at 162,083. In 2017 there were 1,265 births and 1,043 deaths in Centre county. Centre county has 21,866 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 11,850 that are owned free and clear and 23,857 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Centre County filed 59,660 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.0% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.040% of the entire nation. Centre had a combined total federal tax liability of $641,428,000 on earned income of $4,089,548,000. Other notable statistics from Centre County were 2,750 unemployment claims which collected a total of $14,048,000 and 14,370 charitable contributions valued at $75,364,000. 16,630 filings from Centre County paid a combined total of $78,767,000 in property taxes and 13,770 filings paid $95,836,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Centre county had 192 religious congregations with an estimated 57,774 members.
43.7% of the Centre population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 6.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 47% of Centre County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 6,593 votes.
At $56,366 the median income is 95.3% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 2,907 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Centre, the equivalant of around 3.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Centre County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
7,882	Health care and social assistance
7,570	Retail trade
6,352	Accommodation and food services
5,517	Food services and drinking places
5,049	Restaurants and other eating places
3,960	Manufacturing
3,213	Full-service restaurants
3,204	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,188	Ambulatory health care services
1,650	Food and beverage stores
1,575	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,500	Limited-service restaurants
1,471	Other services (except public administration)
1,444	Administrative and support services
1,397	Grocery stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.52% in Centre County.

In 2018 12.77% of listings in Centre County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 16823 and 16801) dropped their price.

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