The population of Portage county is estimated at 70,188. In 2017 there were 673 births and 497 deaths in Portage county. Portage county has 12,416 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,835 that are owned free and clear and 8,563 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Portage County filed 33,830 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.2% of all Wisconsin filings and 0.023% of the entire nation. Portage had a combined total federal tax liability of $286,214,000 on earned income of $1,978,944,000. Other notable statistics from Portage County were 1,590 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,147,000 and 7,770 charitable contributions valued at $30,702,000. 8,740 filings from Portage County paid a combined total of $34,223,000 in property taxes and 6,940 filings paid $36,654,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Portage county had 74 religious congregations with an estimated 40,989 members.
31.5% of the Portage population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 6.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 54% of Portage County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,063 votes.
At $53,883 the median income is 90.9% of the Wisconsin average. An estimated 1,225 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Portage, the equivalant of around 3.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Portage County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
4,877	Finance and insurance
3,914	Insurance carriers and related activities
3,912	Manufacturing
3,797	Health care and social assistance
3,758	Retail trade
2,904	Transportation and warehousing
2,827	Accommodation and food services
2,572	Food services and drinking places
2,241	Restaurants and other eating places
1,431	Food manufacturing
1,340	Ambulatory health care services
1,277	Warehousing and storage
1,189	Truck transportation
1,113	Full-service restaurants
1,093	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 6.25% in Portage County.

In 2018 8.80% of listings in Portage County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 54481 and 54467) dropped their price.

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