The population of Erie county is estimated at 276,321. In 2017 there were 3,031 births and 2,756 deaths in Erie county. Erie county has 46,681 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 27,166 that are owned free and clear and 36,566 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Erie County filed 128,020 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.1% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.086% of the entire nation. Erie had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,055,172,000 on earned income of $6,714,330,000. Other notable statistics from Erie County were 10,470 unemployment claims which collected a total of $63,848,000 and 18,530 charitable contributions valued at $88,290,000. 22,460 filings from Erie County paid a combined total of $101,615,000 in property taxes and 18,710 filings paid $100,862,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Erie county had 312 religious congregations with an estimated 158,280 members.
27.4% of the Erie population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Erie County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 4,508 votes.
At $50,419 the median income is 85.2% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 7,563 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Erie, the equivalant of around 5.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Erie County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
24,899	Health care and social assistance
21,490	Manufacturing
15,221	Retail trade
10,877	Accommodation and food services
9,955	Food services and drinking places
8,229	Restaurants and other eating places
8,135	Ambulatory health care services
6,642	Hospitals
6,161	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
6,068	General medical and surgical hospitals
5,996	Administrative and support services
5,284	Nursing and residential care facilities
5,135	Finance and insurance
4,838	Social assistance
4,574	Fabricated metal product manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.64% in Erie County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 16415, 16504, 16506, 16505 and 16508).

In 2018 14.28% of listings in Erie County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 16508, 16505, 16502, 16510 and 16506) dropped their price.

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