The population of Chelan county is estimated at 75,968. In 2017 there were 955 births and 683 deaths in Chelan county. Chelan county has 11,852 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,832 that are owned free and clear and 10,143 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Chelan County filed 38,150 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.1% of all Washington filings and 0.026% of the entire nation. Chelan had a combined total federal tax liability of $378,625,000 on earned income of $2,377,777,000. Other notable statistics from Chelan County were 2,740 unemployment claims which collected a total of $13,035,000 and 7,010 charitable contributions valued at $45,109,000. 8,260 filings from Chelan County paid a combined total of $33,566,000 in property taxes and 6,870 filings paid $63,686,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Chelan county had 96 religious congregations with an estimated 34,779 members.
26.3% of the Chelan population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 17.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 28% of Chelan County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 9,914 votes.
At $57,284 the median income is 80.7% of the Washington average. An estimated 2,169 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Chelan, the equivalant of around 4.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Chelan County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
5,233	Health care and social assistance
4,154	Retail trade
3,364	Accommodation and food services
2,861	Hospitals
2,861	General medical and surgical hospitals
2,325	Food services and drinking places
2,202	Restaurants and other eating places
2,118	Wholesale trade
1,831	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
1,702	Manufacturing
1,675	Grocery and related product merchant wholesalers
1,174	Ambulatory health care services
1,098	Full-service restaurants
1,039	Accommodation
886	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.21% in Chelan County.

In 2018 6.05% of listings in Chelan County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 98826, 98801 and 98816) dropped their price.

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