The population of Scott county is estimated at 38,723. In 2017 there were 466 births and 448 deaths in Scott county. Scott county has 6,470 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,169 that are owned free and clear and 4,899 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Scott County filed 16,990 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.6% of all Missouri filings and 0.011% of the entire nation. Scott had a combined total federal tax liability of $114,738,000 on earned income of $842,735,000. Other notable statistics from Scott County were 850 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,563,000 and 2,070 charitable contributions valued at $12,762,000. 2,270 filings from Scott County paid a combined total of $3,675,000 in property taxes and 1,800 filings paid $10,146,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Scott county had 92 religious congregations with an estimated 23,315 members.
13.6% of the Scott population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 16.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Scott County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 245 votes.
At $42,581 the median income is 79.6% of the Missouri average. An estimated 896 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Scott, the equivalant of around 4.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Scott County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,990	Health care and social assistance
2,412	Manufacturing
1,555	Retail trade
1,189	Accommodation and food services
1,044	Food services and drinking places
933	Restaurants and other eating places
825	Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities)
823	Wholesale trade
710	Transportation and warehousing
709	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
666	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
632	Ambulatory health care services
526	Information
482	Full-service restaurants
429	Finance and insurance

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