The population of Lafayette county is estimated at 53,479. In 2017 there were 577 births and 385 deaths in Lafayette county. Lafayette county has 6,398 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,940 that are owned free and clear and 8,018 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lafayette County filed 20,130 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.6% of all Mississippi filings and 0.014% of the entire nation. Lafayette had a combined total federal tax liability of $246,156,000 on earned income of $1,547,179,000. Other notable statistics from Lafayette County were 310 unemployment claims which collected a total of $828,000 and 4,920 charitable contributions valued at $56,630,000. 4,660 filings from Lafayette County paid a combined total of $13,318,000 in property taxes and 3,960 filings paid $32,445,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lafayette county had 80 religious congregations with an estimated 19,129 members.
41.9% of the Lafayette population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 37% of Lafayette County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 2,451 votes.
At $47,899 the median income is 109.9% of the Mississippi average. An estimated 1,135 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lafayette, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Lafayette County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,797	Accommodation and food services
2,671	Health care and social assistance
2,576	Retail trade
2,481	Food services and drinking places
1,931	Restaurants and other eating places
1,248	Manufacturing
1,089	Ambulatory health care services
993	Full-service restaurants
924	Professional, scientific, and technical services
829	Limited-service restaurants
541	Offices of physicians
541	Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists)
520	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
512	Administrative and support services
506	Special food services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.25% in Lafayette County.

In 2018 8.90% of listings in Lafayette County.

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