The population of Lackawanna county is estimated at 210,872. In 2017 there were 2,157 births and 2,557 deaths in Lackawanna county. Lackawanna county has 34,509 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 22,844 that are owned free and clear and 29,873 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lackawanna County filed 102,590 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.7% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.069% of the entire nation. Lackawanna had a combined total federal tax liability of $882,966,000 on earned income of $5,517,855,000. Other notable statistics from Lackawanna County were 6,660 unemployment claims which collected a total of $32,394,000 and 17,450 charitable contributions valued at $56,717,000. 19,580 filings from Lackawanna County paid a combined total of $85,709,000 in property taxes and 16,550 filings paid $101,219,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lackawanna county had 218 religious congregations with an estimated 133,720 members.
27.0% of the Lackawanna population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Lackawanna County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 5,624 votes.
At $49,082 the median income is 83.0% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 5,453 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lackawanna, the equivalant of around 5.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Lackawanna County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
19,120	Health care and social assistance
13,197	Retail trade
8,685	Accommodation and food services
8,611	Manufacturing
8,117	Food services and drinking places
6,253	Ambulatory health care services
6,020	Finance and insurance
5,904	Restaurants and other eating places
4,941	Hospitals
4,818	Nursing and residential care facilities
4,657	Transportation and warehousing
4,511	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,983	Administrative and support services
3,861	General medical and surgical hospitals
3,861	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government

In 2018 the average price reduction was 6.17% in Lackawanna County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 18444, 18505 and 18504).

In 2018 10.98% of listings in Lackawanna County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 18505, 18504 and 18510) dropped their price.

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