The population of Jefferson county is estimated at 659,747. In 2017 there were 8,532 births and 7,192 deaths in Jefferson county. Jefferson county has 120,593 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 50,565 that are owned free and clear and 92,410 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Jefferson County filed 291,420 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 14.3% of all Alabama filings and 0.195% of the entire nation. Jefferson had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $3,592,799,000 on earned income of $20,128,301,000. Other notable statistics from Jefferson County were 6,580 unemployment claims which collected a total of $22,072,000 and 86,230 charitable contributions valued at $840,819,000. 77,360 filings from Jefferson County paid a combined total of $194,433,000 in property taxes and 69,260 filings paid $527,716,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Jefferson county had 1,198 religious congregations with an estimated 552,254 members.
31.9% of the Jefferson population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 44% of Jefferson County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 13,313 votes.
At $50,731 the median income is 105.3% of the Alabama average. An estimated 13,106 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Jefferson, 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 5.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Jefferson County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
57,068	Health care and social assistance
38,691	Retail trade
27,207	Accommodation and food services
25,049	Finance and insurance
24,541	Food services and drinking places
24,368	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
23,894	Hospitals
23,463	Manufacturing
23,354	Administrative and support services
22,524	Restaurants and other eating places
20,994	Ambulatory health care services
16,087	Professional, scientific, and technical services
15,345	Wholesale trade
13,515	Credit intermediation and related activities
11,347	Transportation and warehousing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.80% in Jefferson County (averaging across 26 zip codes a sample of which are; 35235, 35068, 35242 and 35223).

In 2018 13.91% of listings in Jefferson County (averaging across 30 zip codes a sample of which are; 35209, 35214, 35216, 35215 and 35222) dropped their price.

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