The population of Lafayette Parish is estimated at 241,746. In 2017 there were 3,444 births and 1,892 deaths in Lafayette Parish . Lafayette Parish has 36,300 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 20,273 that are owned free and clear and 30,454 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lafayette Parish filed 106,440 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.4% of all Louisiana filings and 0.071% of the entire nation. Lafayette Parish had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,338,572,000 on earned income of $7,059,113,000. Other notable statistics from Lafayette Parish were 3,360 unemployment claims which collected a total of $12,071,000 and 21,200 charitable contributions valued at $129,869,000. 22,330 filings from Lafayette Parish paid a combined total of $51,846,000 in property taxes and 20,270 filings paid $161,405,000 on mortgage interest costs.

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31.8% of the Lafayette Parish population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Lafayette Parish voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 6,962 votes.
At $52,827 the median income is 114.1% of the Louisiana average. An estimated 5,546 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lafayette Parish, the equivalant of around 4.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Lafayette Parish .
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
22,618	Health care and social assistance
15,818	Retail trade
14,444	Accommodation and food services
13,411	Food services and drinking places
10,996	Manufacturing
10,887	Ambulatory health care services
10,791	Restaurants and other eating places
8,970	Professional, scientific, and technical services
8,366	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
7,844	Administrative and support services
7,554	Wholesale trade
6,310	Hospitals
6,008	Full-service restaurants
5,186	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
4,653	General medical and surgical hospitals

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