The population of Lowndes county is estimated at 59,460. In 2017 there were 798 births and 602 deaths in Lowndes county. Lowndes county has 9,432 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,421 that are owned free and clear and 8,634 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lowndes County filed 24,610 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.0% of all Mississippi filings and 0.017% of the entire nation. Lowndes had a combined total federal tax liability of $183,155,000 on earned income of $1,184,178,000. Other notable statistics from Lowndes County were 660 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,905,000 and 5,040 charitable contributions valued at $43,438,000. 4,210 filings from Lowndes County paid a combined total of $7,108,000 in property taxes and 3,690 filings paid $22,233,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lowndes county had 140 religious congregations with an estimated 39,883 members.
23.6% of the Lowndes population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Lowndes County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 465 votes.
At $42,277 the median income is 97.0% of the Mississippi average. An estimated 1,368 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lowndes, the equivalant of around 5.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Lowndes County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
4,223	Manufacturing
3,578	Retail trade
2,949	Health care and social assistance
2,163	Accommodation and food services
1,977	Food services and drinking places
1,874	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,857	Administrative and support services
1,045	General merchandise stores
957	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
889	Ambulatory health care services
878	Limited-service restaurants
872	Full-service restaurants
862	Transportation and warehousing
581	Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers
578	Employment services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.70% in Lowndes County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 39702 and 39705).

In 2018 12.08% of listings in Lowndes County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 39705, 39701 and 39702) dropped their price.

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