The population of Carbon county is estimated at 20,371. In 2017 there were 279 births and 166 deaths in Carbon county. Carbon county has 3,586 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,158 that are owned free and clear and 2,234 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Carbon County filed 7,860 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.6% of all Utah filings and 0.005% of the entire nation. Carbon had a combined total federal tax liability of $50,561,000 on earned income of $385,224,000. Other notable statistics from Carbon County were 420 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,637,000 and 1,570 charitable contributions valued at $9,433,000. 1,620 filings from Carbon County paid a combined total of $2,709,000 in property taxes and 1,330 filings paid $7,932,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Carbon county had 54 religious congregations with an estimated 17,110 members.
15.7% of the Carbon population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 38% of Carbon County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 423 votes.
At $47,627 the median income is 69.6% of the Utah average. An estimated 426 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Carbon, the equivalant of around 5.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Carbon County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,084	Retail trade
862	Health care and social assistance
640	Accommodation and food services
495	Food services and drinking places
426	Manufacturing
347	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
333	Transportation and warehousing
265	Other services (except public administration)
254	Truck transportation
254	Finance and insurance
242	Limited-service restaurants
232	Full-service restaurants
211	Machinery manufacturing
211	Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing
211	Mining and oil and gas field machinery manufacturing

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