The population of Jefferson county is estimated at 70,342. In 2017 there were 831 births and 822 deaths in Jefferson county. Jefferson county has 10,695 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 7,732 that are owned free and clear and 10,446 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Jefferson County filed 28,360 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.3% of all Arkansas filings and 0.019% of the entire nation. Jefferson had a combined total federal tax liability of $172,442,000 on earned income of $1,194,890,000. Other notable statistics from Jefferson County were 1,100 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,458,000 and 5,300 charitable contributions valued at $36,746,000. 4,460 filings from Jefferson County paid a combined total of $5,967,000 in property taxes and 3,700 filings paid $18,009,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Jefferson county had 188 religious congregations with an estimated 46,297 members.
16.8% of the Jefferson population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 14.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 37% of Jefferson County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,681 votes.
At $38,677 the median income is 84.2% of the Arkansas average. An estimated 1,454 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Jefferson, the equivalant of around 5.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Jefferson County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
5,118	Manufacturing
4,384	Health care and social assistance
3,447	Retail trade
2,037	Food services and drinking places
1,821	Restaurants and other eating places
1,456	Ambulatory health care services
1,311	Limited-service restaurants
979	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
951	General merchandise stores
760	Finance and insurance
577	Professional, scientific, and technical services
570	Credit intermediation and related activities
547	Depository credit intermediation
544	Offices of physicians
506	Employment services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 8.65% in Jefferson County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 71602).

In 2018 12.49% of listings in Jefferson County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 71602) dropped their price.

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