The population of Jefferson county is estimated at 53,157. In 2017 there were 504 births and 649 deaths in Jefferson county. Jefferson county has 8,898 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,075 that are owned free and clear and 4,891 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Jefferson County filed 22,450 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.8% of all Tennessee filings and 0.015% of the entire nation. Jefferson had a combined total federal tax liability of $152,088,000 on earned income of $1,040,798,000. Other notable statistics from Jefferson County were 600 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,631,000 and 2,550 charitable contributions valued at $18,456,000. 2,840 filings from Jefferson County paid a combined total of $6,089,000 in property taxes and 2,390 filings paid $18,447,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Jefferson county had 111 religious congregations with an estimated 27,585 members.
16.2% of the Jefferson population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 16.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 36% of Jefferson County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,429 votes.
At $45,556 the median income is 88.8% of the Tennessee average. An estimated 963 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Jefferson, the equivalant of around 4.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Jefferson County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,786	Retail trade
1,596	Manufacturing
1,434	Health care and social assistance
1,098	Transportation and warehousing
1,070	Accommodation and food services
1,057	Truck transportation
498	Limited-service restaurants
486	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
486	Administrative and support services
441	Food manufacturing
421	Full-service restaurants
383	Wood product manufacturing
370	Other wood product manufacturing
346	Ambulatory health care services
255	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.85% in Jefferson County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 37760 and 37725).

In 2018 8.87% of listings in Jefferson County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 37760, 37890 and 37725) dropped their price.

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