The population of Salt Lake county is estimated at 1,121,379 where 770,197 speak English exclusively and 7,085 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 17,471 births and 6,497 deaths in Salt Lake county. Salt Lake county has 181,521 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 48,898 that are owned free and clear and 112,203 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Salt Lake County filed 507,440 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 39.4% of all Utah filings and 0.340% of the entire nation. Salt Lake had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $5,332,463,000 on earned income of $34,559,712,000. Other notable statistics from Salt Lake County were 12,540 unemployment claims which collected a total of $52,502,000 and 150,970 charitable contributions valued at $1,427,671,000. 159,700 filings from Salt Lake County paid a combined total of $452,978,000 in property taxes and 142,450 filings paid $1,217,498,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Salt Lake county had 1,671 religious congregations with an estimated 754,089 members.
33.6% of the Salt Lake population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 25% of Salt Lake County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 59,229 votes.
At $71,396 the median income is 104.4% of the Utah average. An estimated 19,218 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Salt Lake, 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 3.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Salt Lake County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
60,445	Health care and social assistance
55,808	Retail trade
50,952	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
49,582	Administrative and support services
46,402	Manufacturing
41,574	Accommodation and food services
37,012	Finance and insurance
34,345	Food services and drinking places
31,380	Restaurants and other eating places
27,748	Wholesale trade
25,470	Transportation and warehousing
22,026	Information
21,315	Credit intermediation and related activities
19,329	Hospitals
18,042	General medical and surgical hospitals

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