The population of Luzerne county is estimated at 316,801. In 2017 there were 3,104 births and 3,959 deaths in Luzerne county. Luzerne county has 53,307 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 36,435 that are owned free and clear and 42,190 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Luzerne County filed 157,090 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.5% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.105% of the entire nation. Luzerne had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,249,974,000 on earned income of $7,989,235,000. Other notable statistics from Luzerne County were 11,690 unemployment claims which collected a total of $54,396,000 and 23,740 charitable contributions valued at $80,396,000. 26,780 filings from Luzerne County paid a combined total of $113,679,000 in property taxes and 22,540 filings paid $128,244,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Luzerne county had 355 religious congregations with an estimated 189,155 members.
22.8% of the Luzerne population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Luzerne County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 8,990 votes.
At $50,982 the median income is 86.2% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 9,352 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Luzerne, the equivalant of around 5.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Luzerne County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
23,680	Health care and social assistance
18,177	Retail trade
16,701	Manufacturing
10,730	Accommodation and food services
9,861	Transportation and warehousing
9,545	Food services and drinking places
8,785	Ambulatory health care services
8,314	Restaurants and other eating places
8,156	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
7,687	Administrative and support services
6,000	Hospitals
5,656	Wholesale trade
5,266	Professional, scientific, and technical services
5,066	Nursing and residential care facilities
4,864	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.55% in Luzerne County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 18702, 18704, 18661 and 18201).

In 2018 15.13% of listings in Luzerne County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 18707, 18612, 18201, 18704 and 18222) dropped their price.

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