The population of Forrest county is estimated at 75,637. In 2017 there were 1,047 births and 765 deaths in Forrest county. Forrest county has 10,168 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,621 that are owned free and clear and 11,957 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Forrest County filed 31,040 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.5% of all Mississippi filings and 0.021% of the entire nation. Forrest had a combined total federal tax liability of $277,837,000 on earned income of $1,581,706,000. Other notable statistics from Forrest County were 710 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,302,000 and 5,390 charitable contributions valued at $42,695,000. 4,980 filings from Forrest County paid a combined total of $12,770,000 in property taxes and 4,160 filings paid $26,063,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Forrest county had 137 religious congregations with an estimated 51,184 members.
26.7% of the Forrest population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 36% of Forrest County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 505 votes.
At $39,394 the median income is 90.4% of the Mississippi average. An estimated 1,630 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Forrest, the equivalant of around 4.8% 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 Forrest County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
7,779	Health care and social assistance
4,470	Retail trade
4,332	Accommodation and food services
3,251	Restaurants and other eating places
3,248	Manufacturing
1,829	Offices of physicians
1,547	Full-service restaurants
1,479	Limited-service restaurants
1,204	Food manufacturing
1,097	Finance and insurance
998	Professional, scientific, and technical services
893	Credit intermediation and related activities
857	Wholesale trade
779	Transportation and warehousing
668	Commercial banking

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.09% in Forrest County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 39402 and 39465).

In 2018 11.32% of listings in Forrest County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 39465 and 39402) dropped their price.

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