The population of Shelby county is estimated at 46,592. In 2017 there were 597 births and 317 deaths in Shelby county. Shelby county has 8,148 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,790 that are owned free and clear and 4,383 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Shelby County filed 20,950 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.1% of all Kentucky filings and 0.014% of the entire nation. Shelby had a combined total federal tax liability of $206,241,000 on earned income of $1,334,442,000. Other notable statistics from Shelby County were 670 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,053,000 and 5,800 charitable contributions valued at $30,417,000. 6,380 filings from Shelby County paid a combined total of $17,596,000 in property taxes and 5,670 filings paid $40,106,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Shelby county had 66 religious congregations with an estimated 23,318 members.
24.3% of the Shelby population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Shelby County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,904 votes.
At $65,054 the median income is 134.6% of the Kentucky average. An estimated 879 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Shelby, the equivalant of around 3.6% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Shelby County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,562	Manufacturing
1,654	Retail trade
1,415	Health care and social assistance
1,375	Transportation equipment manufacturing
1,375	Motor vehicle parts manufacturing
1,238	Food services and drinking places
711	Limited-service restaurants
505	Transportation and warehousing
501	Other services (except public administration)
492	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
469	Full-service restaurants
446	Converted paper product manufacturing
446	Paper manufacturing
411	Ambulatory health care services
376	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.23% in Shelby County.

In 2018 11.09% of listings in Shelby County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 40065) dropped their price.

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