Madison County is the wealthiest county in Mississippi. Ridgeland is the largest city located within this county.
  The population of Madison county is estimated at 103,875. In 2017 there were 1,328 births and 1,097 deaths in Madison county. Madison county has 18,587 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,641 that are owned free and clear and 10,601 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Madison County filed 48,640 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.0% of all Mississippi filings and 0.033% of the entire nation. Madison had a combined total federal tax liability of $791,313,000 on earned income of $4,249,301,000. Other notable statistics from Madison County were 820 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,358,000 and 18,090 charitable contributions valued at $186,173,000. 16,970 filings from Madison County paid a combined total of $50,825,000 in property taxes and 15,030 filings paid $126,465,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Madison county had 116 religious congregations with an estimated 49,710 members.
46.5% of the Madison population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 43% of Madison County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 4,523 votes.
At $69,820 the median income is 160.2% of the Mississippi average. An estimated 2,074 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Madison, the equivalant of around 3.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Madison County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,698	Retail trade
5,749	Manufacturing
4,940	Health care and social assistance
4,681	Accommodation and food services
4,288	Food services and drinking places
4,217	Transportation equipment manufacturing
4,134	Restaurants and other eating places
3,754	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,714	Administrative and support services
3,166	Finance and insurance
2,907	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,553	Information
2,394	Employment services
2,220	Wholesale trade
1,931	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.38% in Madison County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 39110 and 39157).

In 2018 12.77% of listings in Madison County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 39110, 39157 and 39046) dropped their price.

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