The population of Dallas county is estimated at 2,587,462 where 1,317,634 speak English exclusively and 26,067 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 40,530 births and 16,520 deaths in Dallas county. Dallas county has 330,081 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 125,660 that are owned free and clear and 400,219 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Dallas County filed 1,173,930 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 9.7% of all Texas filings and 0.787% of the entire nation. Dallas had an astronomical combined total federal tax liability of $17,550,541,000 on earned income of $84,369,974,000. Other notable statistics from Dallas County were 29,750 unemployment claims which collected a total of $153,629,000 and 214,990 charitable contributions valued at $2,230,853,000. 197,000 filings from Dallas County paid a combined total of $1,610,167,000 in property taxes and 169,810 filings paid $1,397,315,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Dallas county had 2,336 religious congregations with an estimated 1,455,158 members.
30.1% of the Dallas population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 21.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 29% of Dallas County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 44,708 votes.
At $56,732 the median income is 95.8% of the Texas average. An estimated 51,148 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Dallas, the equivalant of around 3.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Dallas County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
187,723	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
185,253	Administrative and support services
155,579	Health care and social assistance
125,146	Professional, scientific, and technical services
112,656	Retail trade
107,611	Accommodation and food services
107,146	Employment services
99,244	Finance and insurance
94,078	Manufacturing
91,360	Food services and drinking places
80,229	Restaurants and other eating places
75,259	Ambulatory health care services
67,700	Wholesale trade
66,645	Transportation and warehousing
54,952	Temporary help services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.58% in Dallas County (averaging across 57 zip codes a sample of which are; 75081, 75238, 75228 and 75225).

In 2018 19.26% of listings in Dallas County (averaging across 68 zip codes a sample of which are; 75061, 75201, 75180, 75052 and 75019) dropped their price.

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