The population of Marion county is estimated at 56,477. In 2017 there were 616 births and 686 deaths in Marion county. Marion county has 8,683 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,787 that are owned free and clear and 6,316 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Marion County filed 25,450 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.3% of all West Virginia filings and 0.017% of the entire nation. Marion had a combined total federal tax liability of $181,114,000 on earned income of $1,262,809,000. Other notable statistics from Marion County were 1,810 unemployment claims which collected a total of $8,117,000 and 2,660 charitable contributions valued at $12,438,000. 3,510 filings from Marion County paid a combined total of $5,952,000 in property taxes and 2,980 filings paid $16,796,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Marion county had 141 religious congregations with an estimated 25,478 members.
22.0% of the Marion population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of Marion County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,496 votes.
At $46,514 the median income is 107.6% of the West Virginia average. An estimated 1,333 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Marion, the equivalant of around 5.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Marion County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,878	Health care and social assistance
2,291	Retail trade
2,043	Accommodation and food services
1,898	Food services and drinking places
1,788	Restaurants and other eating places
1,773	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,154	Manufacturing
1,078	Ambulatory health care services
1,060	Professional, scientific, and technical services
963	Limited-service restaurants
761	Other services (except public administration)
760	Full-service restaurants
579	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
506	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
486	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.97% in Marion County.

In 2018 13.56% of listings in Marion County.

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