The population of Yakima county is estimated at 249,323. In 2017 there were 3,942 births and 2,027 deaths in Yakima county. Yakima county has 34,671 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 16,273 that are owned free and clear and 29,648 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Yakima County filed 109,230 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.1% of all Washington filings and 0.073% of the entire nation. Yakima had a combined total federal tax liability of $853,458,000 on earned income of $5,475,834,000. Other notable statistics from Yakima County were 10,240 unemployment claims which collected a total of $35,739,000 and 11,930 charitable contributions valued at $78,180,000. 14,250 filings from Yakima County paid a combined total of $45,793,000 in property taxes and 12,450 filings paid $95,358,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Yakima county had 278 religious congregations with an estimated 108,196 members.
15.9% of the Yakima population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 26.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 21% of Yakima County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 10,199 votes.
At $47,573 the median income is 67.1% of the Washington average. An estimated 8,602 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Yakima, the equivalant of around 6.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 7.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Yakima County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
12,903	Health care and social assistance
9,575	Retail trade
8,152	Manufacturing
5,364	Accommodation and food services
5,198	Ambulatory health care services
4,762	Food services and drinking places
4,481	Restaurants and other eating places
4,373	Wholesale trade
3,119	Hospitals
3,119	General medical and surgical hospitals
3,119	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
3,070	Food manufacturing
2,718	Transportation and warehousing
2,481	General merchandise stores
2,450	Nursing and residential care facilities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.44% in Yakima County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 98902 and 98908).

In 2018 12.23% of listings in Yakima County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 98908, 98902 and 98942) dropped their price.

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