The population of Thurston county is estimated at 273,923. In 2017 there were 3,171 births and 2,256 deaths in Thurston county. Thurston county has 50,458 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 16,611 that are owned free and clear and 33,581 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Thurston County filed 134,630 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.9% of all Washington filings and 0.090% of the entire nation. Thurston had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,244,281,000 on earned income of $8,645,729,000. Other notable statistics from Thurston County were 5,420 unemployment claims which collected a total of $27,884,000 and 31,370 charitable contributions valued at $132,842,000. 36,610 filings from Thurston County paid a combined total of $148,208,000 in property taxes and 32,770 filings paid $296,273,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Thurston county had 206 religious congregations with an estimated 72,938 members.
34.4% of the Thurston population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 6.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 43% of Thurston County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 5,187 votes.
At $71,370 the median income is 100.6% of the Washington average. An estimated 6,697 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Thurston, the equivalant of around 5.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Thurston County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
13,079	Health care and social assistance
12,317	Retail trade
7,785	Accommodation and food services
6,740	Food services and drinking places
6,212	Restaurants and other eating places
5,520	Ambulatory health care services
4,829	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,277	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,325	Hospitals
3,325	General medical and surgical hospitals
3,142	Information
3,023	Full-service restaurants
2,917	General merchandise stores
2,883	Manufacturing
2,769	Other services (except public administration)

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.55% in Thurston County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 98503, 98501, 98513, 98506 and 98502).

In 2018 14.95% of listings in Thurston County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 98506, 98502, 98501, 98503 and 98579) dropped their price.

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