The population of Monroe county is estimated at 166,516. In 2017 there were 1,408 births and 1,517 deaths in Monroe county. Monroe county has 36,307 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 11,710 that are owned free and clear and 13,074 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Monroe County filed 79,080 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.3% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.053% of the entire nation. Monroe had a combined total federal tax liability of $624,869,000 on earned income of $4,231,349,000. Other notable statistics from Monroe County were 4,810 unemployment claims which collected a total of $24,523,000 and 20,500 charitable contributions valued at $59,669,000. 23,470 filings from Monroe County paid a combined total of $139,324,000 in property taxes and 20,610 filings paid $137,973,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Monroe county had 122 religious congregations with an estimated 76,158 members.
24.0% of the Monroe population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 40% of Monroe County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 6,632 votes.
At $61,296 the median income is 103.6% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 4,814 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Monroe, 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 Monroe County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,710	Retail trade
8,392	Accommodation and food services
7,031	Health care and social assistance
4,511	Food services and drinking places
4,449	Manufacturing
3,932	Restaurants and other eating places
3,881	Accommodation
3,771	Traveler accommodation
2,626	Ambulatory health care services
2,554	Transportation and warehousing
2,385	Full-service restaurants
2,037	Arts, entertainment, and recreation
1,874	Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries
1,690	Clothing and clothing accessories stores
1,632	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.08% in Monroe County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 18610, 18466, 18372, 18330 and 18302).

In 2018 15.29% of listings in Monroe County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 18610, 18466, 18334, 18301 and 18353) dropped their price.

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