The population of Hinds county is estimated at 241,818. In 2017 there were 3,137 births and 2,150 deaths in Hinds county. Hinds county has 38,087 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 17,226 that are owned free and clear and 36,038 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Hinds County filed 104,430 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 8.5% of all Mississippi filings and 0.070% of the entire nation. Hinds had a combined total federal tax liability of $812,700,000 on earned income of $4,927,391,000. Other notable statistics from Hinds County were 1,950 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,371,000 and 24,570 charitable contributions valued at $194,077,000. 19,640 filings from Hinds County paid a combined total of $47,547,000 in property taxes and 17,050 filings paid $101,606,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Hinds county had 405 religious congregations with an estimated 164,492 members.
28.6% of the Hinds population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 38% of Hinds County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 6,103 votes.
At $44,076 the median income is 101.1% of the Mississippi average. An estimated 5,333 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Hinds, 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 5.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Hinds County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
27,244	Health care and social assistance
14,299	Hospitals
13,480	General medical and surgical hospitals
11,093	Retail trade
9,261	Accommodation and food services
8,184	Food services and drinking places
7,659	Restaurants and other eating places
7,532	Ambulatory health care services
6,672	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
6,452	Administrative and support services
5,613	Finance and insurance
5,244	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,467	Limited-service restaurants
3,730	Manufacturing
3,476	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.47% in Hinds County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 39272, 39056 and 39211).

In 2018 14.80% of listings in Hinds County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 39170, 39272 and 39211) dropped their price.

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