The population of Hidalgo county is estimated at 850,187. In 2017 there were 15,574 births and 4,475 deaths in Hidalgo county. Hidalgo county has 76,812 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 74,721 that are owned free and clear and 64,938 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Hidalgo County filed 312,950 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.6% of all Texas filings and 0.210% of the entire nation. Hidalgo had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,033,718,000 on earned income of $11,979,077,000. Other notable statistics from Hidalgo County were 22,280 unemployment claims which collected a total of $115,763,000 and 36,320 charitable contributions valued at $156,188,000. 33,740 filings from Hidalgo County paid a combined total of $149,006,000 in property taxes and 28,760 filings paid $170,504,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Hidalgo county had 677 religious congregations with an estimated 377,462 members.
17.8% of the Hidalgo population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 36.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 20% of Hidalgo County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 34,024 votes.
At $36,978 the median income is 62.5% of the Texas average. An estimated 25,255 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Hidalgo, the equivalant of around 7.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 7.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Hidalgo County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
54,356	Health care and social assistance
33,566	Retail trade
27,415	Ambulatory health care services
19,468	Accommodation and food services
18,343	Food services and drinking places
17,262	Restaurants and other eating places
15,786	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
15,443	Administrative and support services
15,146	Social assistance
14,695	Home health care services
12,537	Individual and family services
12,169	Services for the elderly and persons with disabilities
9,225	Employment services
8,996	Hospitals
8,470	General medical and surgical hospitals

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.88% in Hidalgo County (averaging across 10 zip codes a sample of which are; 78574, 78501, 78572, 78541 and 78573).

In 2018 11.73% of listings in Hidalgo County (averaging across 13 zip codes a sample of which are; 78501, 78541, 78504 and 78572) dropped their price.

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