The population of Dauphin county is estimated at 274,121. In 2017 there were 3,331 births and 2,518 deaths in Dauphin county. Dauphin county has 49,790 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 21,701 that are owned free and clear and 38,944 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Dauphin County filed 141,800 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.3% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.095% of the entire nation. Dauphin had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,268,255,000 on earned income of $8,155,776,000. Other notable statistics from Dauphin County were 6,770 unemployment claims which collected a total of $30,610,000 and 30,240 charitable contributions valued at $135,191,000. 34,970 filings from Dauphin County paid a combined total of $153,080,000 in property taxes and 30,040 filings paid $187,440,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Dauphin county had 364 religious congregations with an estimated 128,347 members.
29.8% of the Dauphin population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 47% of Dauphin County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 7,535 votes.
At $61,229 the median income is 103.5% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 6,404 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Dauphin, the equivalant of around 4.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Dauphin County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
26,291	Health care and social assistance
15,280	Retail trade
12,533	Accommodation and food services
9,666	Finance and insurance
9,447	Nursing and residential care facilities
9,336	Food services and drinking places
8,325	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
8,037	Administrative and support services
7,966	Ambulatory health care services
7,851	Restaurants and other eating places
7,679	Manufacturing
7,608	Professional, scientific, and technical services
6,850	Insurance carriers and related activities
6,839	Wholesale trade
5,476	Arts, entertainment, and recreation

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.89% in Dauphin County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 17057, 17036, 17109, 17111 and 17113).

In 2018 15.67% of listings in Dauphin County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 17111, 17113, 17104, 17102 and 17110) dropped their price.

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