The population of Milwaukee county is estimated at 955,369 where 738,958 speak English exclusively and 7,817 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 13,448 births and 8,130 deaths in Milwaukee county. Milwaukee county has 143,509 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 53,325 that are owned free and clear and 186,757 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Milwaukee County filed 439,410 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 15.5% of all Wisconsin filings and 0.295% of the entire nation. Milwaukee had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,888,872,000 on earned income of $24,519,716,000. Other notable statistics from Milwaukee County were 15,030 unemployment claims which collected a total of $58,479,000 and 95,600 charitable contributions valued at $441,999,000. 104,130 filings from Milwaukee County paid a combined total of $571,346,000 in property taxes and 86,500 filings paid $490,742,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Milwaukee county had 744 religious congregations with an estimated 439,526 members.
30.1% of the Milwaukee population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Milwaukee County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 55,974 votes.
At $47,795 the median income is 80.6% of the Wisconsin average. An estimated 19,351 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Milwaukee, the equivalant of around 4.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Milwaukee County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
86,674	Health care and social assistance
48,963	Manufacturing
42,340	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
41,577	Administrative and support services
41,381	Retail trade
39,571	Finance and insurance
36,303	Accommodation and food services
32,812	Food services and drinking places
27,504	Ambulatory health care services
27,219	Hospitals
26,742	Restaurants and other eating places
26,581	Employment services
25,956	General medical and surgical hospitals
25,475	Temporary help services
23,986	Insurance carriers and related activities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.28% in Milwaukee County (averaging across 27 zip codes a sample of which are; 53235, 53219, 53222, 53202 and 53209).

In 2018 15.74% of listings in Milwaukee County (averaging across 27 zip codes a sample of which are; 53221, 53219, 53218, 53213 and 53220) dropped their price.

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