The population of Harris county is estimated at 4,617,041 where 2,208,964 speak English exclusively and 40,378 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 73,172 births and 27,050 deaths in Harris county. Harris county has 580,173 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 234,637 that are owned free and clear and 620,345 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Harris County filed 1,959,360 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 16.2% of all Texas filings and 1.314% of the entire nation. Harris had an astronomical combined total federal tax liability of $24,987,100,000 on earned income of $128,674,118,000. Other notable statistics from Harris County were 83,720 unemployment claims which collected a total of $503,050,000 and 375,170 charitable contributions valued at $2,808,514,000. 366,880 filings from Harris County paid a combined total of $2,718,631,000 in property taxes and 319,130 filings paid $2,450,344,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Harris county had 3,031 religious congregations with an estimated 2,389,775 members.
30.5% of the Harris population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 19.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 28% of Harris County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 117,409 votes.
At $58,664 the median income is 99.1% of the Texas average. An estimated 113,459 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Harris, the equivalant of around 5.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Harris County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
240,170	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
232,131	Health care and social assistance
231,738	Administrative and support services
192,436	Professional, scientific, and technical services
189,299	Retail trade
166,626	Accommodation and food services
164,479	Manufacturing
149,674	Food services and drinking places
144,454	Employment services
134,288	Restaurants and other eating places
102,048	Ambulatory health care services
100,988	Wholesale trade
92,588	Transportation and warehousing
90,412	Temporary help services
84,822	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.10% in Harris County (averaging across 84 zip codes a sample of which are; 77379, 77571, 77027, 77523 and 77005).

In 2018 17.02% of listings in Harris County (averaging across 111 zip codes a sample of which are; 77005, 77069, 77346 and 77083) dropped their price.

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