The population of Union county is estimated at 28,325. In 2017 there were 379 births and 277 deaths in Union county. Union county has 4,299 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,312 that are owned free and clear and 2,706 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Union County filed 11,460 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.9% of all Mississippi filings and 0.008% of the entire nation. Union had a combined total federal tax liability of $73,694,000 on earned income of $518,044,000. Other notable statistics from Union County were 200 unemployment claims which collected a total of $459,000 and 1,750 charitable contributions valued at $13,850,000. 1,590 filings from Union County paid a combined total of $2,768,000 in property taxes and 1,370 filings paid $7,885,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Union county had 88 religious congregations with an estimated 23,351 members.
14.7% of the Union population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 21.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 40% of Union County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,015 votes.
At $46,979 the median income is 107.8% of the Mississippi average. An estimated 502 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Union, 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 4.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Union County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,660	Manufacturing
1,223	Health care and social assistance
1,039	Retail trade
1,027	Transportation and warehousing
929	Furniture and related product manufacturing
828	Upholstered household furniture manufacturing
536	Accommodation and food services
495	Food services and drinking places
463	Restaurants and other eating places
365	Limited-service restaurants
332	Ambulatory health care services
292	General freight trucking
241	General freight trucking, long-distance
218	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
195	Finance and insurance

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