The population of Brazos county is estimated at 219,561. In 2017 there were 2,910 births and 1,039 deaths in Brazos county. Brazos county has 21,578 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 10,835 that are owned free and clear and 39,326 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Brazos County filed 80,270 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.7% of all Texas filings and 0.054% of the entire nation. Brazos had a combined total federal tax liability of $874,027,000 on earned income of $5,064,776,000. Other notable statistics from Brazos County were 1,530 unemployment claims which collected a total of $7,867,000 and 13,730 charitable contributions valued at $118,430,000. 14,520 filings from Brazos County paid a combined total of $91,442,000 in property taxes and 12,000 filings paid $90,689,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Brazos county had 156 religious congregations with an estimated 80,197 members.
39.6% of the Brazos population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 14.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 30% of Brazos County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 10,191 votes.
At $46,083 the median income is 77.8% of the Texas average. An estimated 3,476 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Brazos, the equivalant of around 3.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Brazos County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,807	Retail trade
9,491	Accommodation and food services
8,719	Food services and drinking places
8,166	Health care and social assistance
7,860	Restaurants and other eating places
4,480	Manufacturing
3,976	Ambulatory health care services
3,741	Limited-service restaurants
3,660	Full-service restaurants
2,690	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,444	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,438	Administrative and support services
2,007	Food and beverage stores
1,939	Other services (except public administration)
1,863	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.38% in Brazos County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 77845 and 77802).

In 2018 9.69% of listings in Brazos County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 77808, 77802, 77840, 77807 and 77845) dropped their price.

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