The population of Rankin county is estimated at 151,074. In 2017 there were 1,801 births and 1,155 deaths in Rankin county. Rankin county has 28,496 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 11,379 that are owned free and clear and 12,961 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Rankin County filed 65,280 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.3% of all Mississippi filings and 0.044% of the entire nation. Rankin had a combined total federal tax liability of $553,415,000 on earned income of $3,946,330,000. Other notable statistics from Rankin County were 930 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,938,000 and 17,940 charitable contributions valued at $119,551,000. 17,860 filings from Rankin County paid a combined total of $34,404,000 in property taxes and 16,130 filings paid $106,351,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Rankin county had 177 religious congregations with an estimated 91,437 members.
29.2% of the Rankin population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of Rankin County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 82 votes.
At $65,504 the median income is 150.3% of the Mississippi average. An estimated 2,698 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Rankin, the equivalant of around 3.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Rankin County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,559	Health care and social assistance
8,324	Retail trade
5,399	Accommodation and food services
4,872	Food services and drinking places
3,655	Manufacturing
3,551	Wholesale trade
3,459	Transportation and warehousing
3,284	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,078	Ambulatory health care services
2,744	Truck transportation
2,509	Finance and insurance
2,421	Limited-service restaurants
2,396	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
2,363	General freight trucking
2,299	General freight trucking, long-distance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.46% in Rankin County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 39232, 39042, 39073, 39047 and 39208).

In 2018 17.28% of listings in Rankin County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 39047, 39232, 39073, 39208 and 39042) dropped their price.

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