The population of Lamar county is estimated at 49,565. In 2017 there were 680 births and 625 deaths in Lamar county. Lamar county has 7,156 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,038 that are owned free and clear and 6,635 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lamar County filed 20,910 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all Texas filings and 0.014% of the entire nation. Lamar had a combined total federal tax liability of $158,638,000 on earned income of $976,073,000. Other notable statistics from Lamar County were 800 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,709,000 and 2,390 charitable contributions valued at $18,790,000. 2,450 filings from Lamar County paid a combined total of $7,417,000 in property taxes and 1,830 filings paid $10,886,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lamar county had 129 religious congregations with an estimated 28,822 members.
17.1% of the Lamar population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 37% of Lamar County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,364 votes.
At $47,212 the median income is 79.8% of the Texas average. An estimated 995 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lamar, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Lamar County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,747	Health care and social assistance
3,525	Manufacturing
2,426	Retail trade
1,661	Ambulatory health care services
1,568	Accommodation and food services
1,455	Food services and drinking places
1,397	Restaurants and other eating places
774	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
681	Transportation equipment manufacturing
673	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
668	Home health care services
666	Limited-service restaurants
655	General merchandise stores
601	Travel trailer and camper manufacturing
588	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.98% in Lamar County.

In 2018 17.50% of listings in Lamar County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 75462) dropped their price.

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