The population of Tift county is estimated at 40,650. In 2017 there were 580 births and 410 deaths in Tift county. Tift county has 5,615 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,468 that are owned free and clear and 5,753 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Tift County filed 16,580 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.4% of all Georgia filings and 0.011% of the entire nation. Tift had a combined total federal tax liability of $118,601,000 on earned income of $761,605,000. Other notable statistics from Tift County were 290 unemployment claims which collected a total of $722,000 and 3,770 charitable contributions valued at $32,730,000. 3,360 filings from Tift County paid a combined total of $8,574,000 in property taxes and 2,690 filings paid $15,798,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Tift county had 77 religious congregations with an estimated 24,459 members.
16.8% of the Tift population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 17.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 31% of Tift County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,097 votes.
At $41,544 the median income is 74.0% of the Georgia average. An estimated 914 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Tift, the equivalant of around 4.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Tift County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,122	Health care and social assistance
2,405	Retail trade
2,175	Accommodation and food services
1,924	Food services and drinking places
1,707	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,476	Employment services
1,289	Manufacturing
1,270	Transportation and warehousing
1,041	Wholesale trade
910	Full-service restaurants
728	Limited-service restaurants
727	Machinery manufacturing
632	General merchandise stores
609	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
533	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 6.89% in Tift County.

In 2018 12.27% of listings in Tift County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 31794 and 31793) dropped their price.

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