The population of Blount county is estimated at 57,562. In 2017 there were 685 births and 653 deaths in Blount county. Blount county has 10,442 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,942 that are owned free and clear and 4,194 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Blount County filed 22,110 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.1% of all Alabama filings and 0.015% of the entire nation. Blount had a combined total federal tax liability of $146,540,000 on earned income of $1,090,757,000. Other notable statistics from Blount County were 540 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,760,000 and 4,050 charitable contributions valued at $22,568,000. 3,980 filings from Blount County paid a combined total of $3,534,000 in property taxes and 3,600 filings paid $22,832,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Blount county had 156 religious congregations with an estimated 37,352 members.
13.1% of the Blount population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 20.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 44% of Blount County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,404 votes.
At $48,253 the median income is 100.1% of the Alabama average. An estimated 985 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Blount, 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 5.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Blount County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,255	Retail trade
1,247	Manufacturing
576	Accommodation and food services
561	Food services and drinking places
422	Limited-service restaurants
365	Ambulatory health care services
331	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
309	Administrative and support services
290	Wholesale trade
283	Other services (except public administration)
250	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
240	Finance and insurance
223	Professional, scientific, and technical services
222	Motor vehicle and parts dealers
186	Gasoline stations

In 2018 11.90% of listings in Blount County.

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