The population of Waukesha county is estimated at 398,225. In 2017 there were 3,849 births and 3,394 deaths in Waukesha county. Waukesha county has 86,514 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 30,756 that are owned free and clear and 35,393 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Waukesha County filed 207,850 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 7.3% of all Wisconsin filings and 0.139% of the entire nation. Waukesha had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,332,709,000 on earned income of $19,466,907,000. Other notable statistics from Waukesha County were 6,670 unemployment claims which collected a total of $24,971,000 and 82,680 charitable contributions valued at $430,209,000. 89,190 filings from Waukesha County paid a combined total of $470,794,000 in property taxes and 74,240 filings paid $552,977,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Waukesha county had 272 religious congregations with an estimated 234,739 members.
42.9% of the Waukesha population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 4.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 59% of Waukesha County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 4,815 votes.
At $82,627 the median income is 139.3% of the Wisconsin average. An estimated 6,580 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Waukesha, the equivalant of around 2.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Waukesha County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
43,232	Manufacturing
25,812	Health care and social assistance
24,751	Retail trade
16,092	Accommodation and food services
14,623	Food services and drinking places
13,932	Finance and insurance
13,383	Professional, scientific, and technical services
13,091	Restaurants and other eating places
12,343	Wholesale trade
11,141	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
10,828	Ambulatory health care services
10,347	Administrative and support services
9,363	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
8,341	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
7,332	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.35% in Waukesha County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 53051, 53149, 53045, 53150 and 53188).

In 2018 15.41% of listings in Waukesha County (averaging across 14 zip codes a sample of which are; 53051, 53188, 53189, 53066 and 53045) dropped their price.

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