The population of Madison county is estimated at 356,312. In 2017 there were 4,174 births and 3,193 deaths in Madison county. Madison county has 68,077 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 24,076 that are owned free and clear and 42,547 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Madison County filed 167,930 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 8.2% of all Alabama filings and 0.113% of the entire nation. Madison had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,846,567,000 on earned income of $11,641,843,000. Other notable statistics from Madison County were 3,560 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,018,000 and 47,400 charitable contributions valued at $352,292,000. 47,130 filings from Madison County paid a combined total of $75,926,000 in property taxes and 41,900 filings paid $315,512,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Madison county had 432 religious congregations with an estimated 168,830 members.
40.6% of the Madison population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 45% of Madison County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 4,841 votes.
At $62,750 the median income is 130.2% of the Alabama average. An estimated 6,741 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Madison, the equivalant of around 3.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Madison County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
32,575	Professional, scientific, and technical services
21,762	Health care and social assistance
18,653	Retail trade
16,571	Manufacturing
14,659	Accommodation and food services
14,142	Architectural, engineering, and related services
13,840	Engineering services
13,322	Food services and drinking places
12,541	Restaurants and other eating places
12,273	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
11,998	Administrative and support services
10,158	Computer systems design and related services
7,371	Ambulatory health care services
6,398	Limited-service restaurants
5,708	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.11% in Madison County (averaging across 15 zip codes a sample of which are; 35756, 35824 and 35801).

In 2018 14.63% of listings in Madison County (averaging across 17 zip codes a sample of which are; 35756, 35801, 35773, 35763 and 35748) dropped their price.

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