The population of Rusk county is estimated at 14,092. In 2017 there were 139 births and 157 deaths in Rusk county. Rusk county has 2,749 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,021 that are owned free and clear and 1,462 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Rusk County filed 6,540 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all Wisconsin filings and 0.004% of the entire nation. Rusk had a combined total federal tax liability of $36,117,000 on earned income of $280,506,000. Other notable statistics from Rusk County were 610 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,865,000 and 870 charitable contributions valued at $3,107,000. 1,160 filings from Rusk County paid a combined total of $3,819,000 in property taxes and 880 filings paid $4,362,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Rusk county had 44 religious congregations with an estimated 7,506 members.
14.8% of the Rusk population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 50% of Rusk County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 142 votes.
At $44,780 the median income is 75.5% of the Wisconsin average. An estimated 311 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Rusk, the equivalant of around 4.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Rusk County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,579	Manufacturing
887	Wood product manufacturing
880	Other wood product manufacturing
780	Health care and social assistance
595	Retail trade
210	Accommodation and food services
182	Food services and drinking places
173	Ambulatory health care services
171	Restaurants and other eating places
161	Transportation and warehousing
133	Gasoline stations
131	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
127	Truck transportation
105	Limited-service restaurants
101	Wholesale trade

In 2018 13.33% of listings in Rusk County.

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