The population of Lehigh county is estimated at 363,113. In 2017 there were 4,194 births and 3,329 deaths in Lehigh county. Lehigh county has 63,383 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 27,463 that are owned free and clear and 43,137 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lehigh County filed 183,160 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.0% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.123% of the entire nation. Lehigh had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,895,565,000 on earned income of $11,471,919,000. Other notable statistics from Lehigh County were 10,120 unemployment claims which collected a total of $50,104,000 and 44,020 charitable contributions valued at $176,941,000. 50,480 filings from Lehigh County paid a combined total of $268,613,000 in property taxes and 43,150 filings paid $300,471,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lehigh county had 296 religious congregations with an estimated 176,420 members.
29.1% of the Lehigh population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Lehigh County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 8,109 votes.
At $60,706 the median income is 102.6% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 9,487 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lehigh, the equivalant of around 5.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Lehigh County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
40,184	Health care and social assistance
20,261	Retail trade
18,412	General medical and surgical hospitals
18,412	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
15,977	Manufacturing
12,526	Ambulatory health care services
12,283	Accommodation and food services
11,454	Food services and drinking places
10,366	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
9,843	Administrative and support services
9,312	Restaurants and other eating places
9,182	Wholesale trade
8,930	Transportation and warehousing
6,510	Finance and insurance
6,339	Offices of physicians

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.35% in Lehigh County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 18080, 18103, 18036, 18109 and 18034).

In 2018 19.12% of listings in Lehigh County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 18034, 18102, 18031, 18103 and 18109) dropped their price.

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