The population of Jefferson county is estimated at 84,545. In 2017 there were 828 births and 672 deaths in Jefferson county. Jefferson county has 16,375 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,394 that are owned free and clear and 9,348 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Jefferson County filed 41,440 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.5% of all Wisconsin filings and 0.028% of the entire nation. Jefferson had a combined total federal tax liability of $311,117,000 on earned income of $2,326,942,000. Other notable statistics from Jefferson County were 1,780 unemployment claims which collected a total of $6,571,000 and 10,640 charitable contributions valued at $34,378,000. 12,920 filings from Jefferson County paid a combined total of $54,637,000 in property taxes and 10,940 filings paid $65,808,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Jefferson county had 98 religious congregations with an estimated 52,947 members.
23.9% of the Jefferson population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 50% of Jefferson County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,812 votes.
At $58,759 the median income is 99.1% of the Wisconsin average. An estimated 1,461 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Jefferson, the equivalant of around 3.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Jefferson County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,385	Manufacturing
4,021	Health care and social assistance
3,891	Retail trade
2,126	Accommodation and food services
1,948	Food services and drinking places
1,865	Food manufacturing
1,791	Restaurants and other eating places
1,709	Nursing and residential care facilities
1,663	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,486	Administrative and support services
1,372	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
1,356	Wholesale trade
1,217	Transportation and warehousing
1,177	Animal slaughtering and processing
1,137	Ambulatory health care services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.51% in Jefferson County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 53538 and 53094).

In 2018 11.09% of listings in Jefferson County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 53551, 53523, 53594 and 53538) dropped their price.

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