The population of Benton county is estimated at 193,484. In 2017 there were 2,742 births and 1,444 deaths in Benton county. Benton county has 32,060 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,522 that are owned free and clear and 20,722 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Benton County filed 87,460 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.5% of all Washington filings and 0.059% of the entire nation. Benton had a combined total federal tax liability of $888,105,000 on earned income of $5,904,777,000. Other notable statistics from Benton County were 5,280 unemployment claims which collected a total of $24,179,000 and 19,800 charitable contributions valued at $115,059,000. 21,920 filings from Benton County paid a combined total of $69,970,000 in property taxes and 19,150 filings paid $148,013,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Benton county had 162 religious congregations with an estimated 73,805 members.
30.0% of the Benton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 36% of Benton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 8,375 votes.
At $64,717 the median income is 91.2% of the Washington average. An estimated 5,360 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Benton, the equivalant of around 5.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Benton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,802	Health care and social assistance
9,216	Retail trade
8,899	Professional, scientific, and technical services
8,391	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
5,996	Accommodation and food services
5,438	Food services and drinking places
5,203	Restaurants and other eating places
3,990	Manufacturing
3,613	Ambulatory health care services
2,624	General merchandise stores
2,487	Full-service restaurants
2,447	Architectural, engineering, and related services
2,207	Engineering services
2,186	Limited-service restaurants
1,691	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.87% in Benton County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 99336, 99337, 99354, 99338 and 99352).

In 2018 16.89% of listings in Benton County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 99337, 99338, 99352 and 99354) dropped their price.

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