The population of Marion county is estimated at 16,369. In 2017 there were 164 births and 265 deaths in Marion county. Marion county has 3,243 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,683 that are owned free and clear and 1,485 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Marion County filed 6,300 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.5% of all Arkansas filings and 0.004% of the entire nation. Marion had a combined total federal tax liability of $31,283,000 on earned income of $243,156,000. Other notable statistics from Marion County were 220 unemployment claims which collected a total of $589,000 and 700 charitable contributions valued at $3,158,000. 750 filings from Marion County paid a combined total of $1,221,000 in property taxes and 570 filings paid $3,332,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Marion county had 40 religious congregations with an estimated 6,353 members.
16.0% of the Marion population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 41% of Marion County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 311 votes.
At $39,539 the median income is 86.1% of the Arkansas average. An estimated 256 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Marion, the equivalant of around 3.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Marion County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,539	Manufacturing
563	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
563	Plastics product manufacturing
563	Other plastics product manufacturing
563	All other plastics product manufacturing
444	Retail trade
166	Accommodation and food services
146	Food services and drinking places
146	Restaurants and other eating places
121	Finance and insurance
115	Credit intermediation and related activities
92	State commercial banks (banking)
90	Food and beverage stores
88	Full-service restaurants
58	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 6.78% of listings in Marion County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 72634 and 72687) dropped their price.

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