The population of Harrison county is estimated at 202,639. In 2017 there were 2,724 births and 1,894 deaths in Harrison county. Harrison county has 28,072 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 16,126 that are owned free and clear and 27,278 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Harrison County filed 87,160 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 7.1% of all Mississippi filings and 0.058% of the entire nation. Harrison had a combined total federal tax liability of $646,108,000 on earned income of $4,164,468,000. Other notable statistics from Harrison County were 1,910 unemployment claims which collected a total of $6,364,000 and 15,200 charitable contributions valued at $76,785,000. 14,390 filings from Harrison County paid a combined total of $33,864,000 in property taxes and 12,700 filings paid $85,028,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Harrison county had 222 religious congregations with an estimated 93,068 members.
22.2% of the Harrison population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 31% of Harrison County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 474 votes.
At $46,709 the median income is 107.1% of the Mississippi average. An estimated 4,153 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Harrison, 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 5.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Harrison County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
18,209	Accommodation and food services
12,318	Health care and social assistance
10,872	Retail trade
10,257	Accommodation
10,226	Traveler accommodation
7,952	Food services and drinking places
7,485	Restaurants and other eating places
4,755	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,542	Administrative and support services
3,786	Full-service restaurants
3,307	Limited-service restaurants
3,251	Ambulatory health care services
3,179	Manufacturing
3,138	General merchandise stores
2,793	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.85% in Harrison County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 39531, 39503 and 39571).

In 2018 12.63% of listings in Harrison County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 39532, 39503 and 39530) dropped their price.

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