The population of Mercer county is estimated at 112,673. In 2017 there were 1,110 births and 1,442 deaths in Mercer county. Mercer county has 19,319 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 14,619 that are owned free and clear and 12,504 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Mercer County filed 52,600 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.8% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.035% of the entire nation. Mercer had a combined total federal tax liability of $367,257,000 on earned income of $2,551,047,000. Other notable statistics from Mercer County were 4,090 unemployment claims which collected a total of $19,196,000 and 6,260 charitable contributions valued at $31,665,000. 7,500 filings from Mercer County paid a combined total of $23,676,000 in property taxes and 5,990 filings paid $31,751,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Mercer county had 209 religious congregations with an estimated 66,502 members.
22.3% of the Mercer population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Mercer County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,529 votes.
At $46,851 the median income is 79.2% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 2,790 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Mercer, the equivalant of around 5.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Mercer County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
10,413	Health care and social assistance
7,405	Manufacturing
7,109	Retail trade
4,138	Accommodation and food services
3,758	Food services and drinking places
3,507	Ambulatory health care services
3,464	Restaurants and other eating places
2,858	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,683	Administrative and support services
2,126	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
2,025	Full-service restaurants
2,001	Primary metal manufacturing
1,668	Clothing and clothing accessories stores
1,573	Transportation and warehousing
1,572	Iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 6.09% in Mercer County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 16146 and 16148).

In 2018 11.33% of listings in Mercer County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 16137, 16146, 16125, 16127 and 16148) dropped their price.

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