The population of Knox county is estimated at 456,114. In 2017 there were 5,350 births and 4,314 deaths in Knox county. Knox county has 81,304 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 36,108 that are owned free and clear and 59,837 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Knox County filed 207,730 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 6.9% of all Tennessee filings and 0.139% of the entire nation. Knox had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,743,054,000 on earned income of $14,528,414,000. Other notable statistics from Knox County were 3,410 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,587,000 and 37,930 charitable contributions valued at $372,926,000. 40,650 filings from Knox County paid a combined total of $102,899,000 in property taxes and 34,500 filings paid $280,757,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Knox county had 553 religious congregations with an estimated 271,980 members.
36.5% of the Knox population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 39% of Knox County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 11,936 votes.
At $55,299 the median income is 107.8% of the Tennessee average. An estimated 7,500 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Knox, the equivalant of around 3.2% 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 Knox County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
36,221	Health care and social assistance
31,818	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
30,906	Administrative and support services
29,577	Retail trade
21,794	Accommodation and food services
20,402	Food services and drinking places
18,838	Restaurants and other eating places
14,500	Ambulatory health care services
12,686	General medical and surgical hospitals
12,686	General medical and surgical hospitals, except government
12,611	Services to buildings and dwellings
11,934	Manufacturing
11,784	Employment services
10,571	Janitorial services
10,390	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.41% in Knox County (averaging across 16 zip codes a sample of which are; 37931, 37918, 37914, 37924 and 37921).

In 2018 14.44% of listings in Knox County (averaging across 17 zip codes a sample of which are; 37912, 37924, 37849, 37923 and 37918) dropped their price.

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