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  Shelby County is the richest county in Alabama. Birmingham is the largest city located within this county.
  The population of Shelby county is estimated at 211,073. In 2017 there were 2,363 births and 1,534 deaths in Shelby county. Shelby county has 46,098 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,031 that are owned free and clear and 14,943 that are renter occupied.


  The upstanding residents of Shelby County filed 93,860 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.6% of all Alabama filings and 0.063% of the entire nation. Shelby had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,185,289,000 on earned income of $7,499,833,000. Other notable statistics from Shelby County were 1,760 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,881,000 and 34,150 charitable contributions valued at $281,120,000. 33,270 filings from Shelby County paid a combined total of $60,958,000 in property taxes and 30,780 filings paid $245,869,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Shelby county had 230 religious congregations with an estimated 85,708 members.

42.2% of the Shelby population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.


About 47% of Shelby County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 7,004 votes.

At $74,098 the median income is 153.8% of the Alabama average. An estimated 3,527 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Shelby, 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 4.3%.


Top 15 Industries in Shelby County.
Total # EmployedIndustry Job Type
9,668Finance and insurance
8,195Retail trade
8,100Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
6,640Accommodation and food services
6,297Health care and social assistance
6,172Food services and drinking places
5,824Restaurants and other eating places
5,244Insurance carriers and related activities
5,082Information
5,062Manufacturing
4,724Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,278Credit intermediation and related activities
4,260Wholesale trade
3,999Insurance carriers
3,425Depository credit intermediation


In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.90% in Shelby County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 35043, 35007, 35080, 35040 and 35124).

In 2018 15.47% of listings in Shelby County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 35007, 35124, 35147, 35114 and 35115) dropped their price.


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