The population of New Madrid county is estimated at 17,890. In 2017 there were 216 births and 231 deaths in New Madrid county. New Madrid county has 2,620 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,362 that are owned free and clear and 2,760 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of New Madrid County filed 6,950 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all Missouri filings and 0.005% of the entire nation. New Madrid had a combined total federal tax liability of $40,398,000 on earned income of $295,494,000. Other notable statistics from New Madrid County were 530 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,464,000 and 720 charitable contributions valued at $4,732,000. 720 filings from New Madrid County paid a combined total of $962,000 in property taxes and 560 filings paid $2,707,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 New Madrid county had 51 religious congregations with an estimated 9,819 members.
12.6% of the New Madrid population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 24.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of New Madrid County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 102 votes.
At $38,542 the median income is 72.0% of the Missouri average. An estimated 530 people claimed to be unemployed last year in New Madrid, the equivalant of around 6.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 9.3%.

Top 15 Industries in New Madrid County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,561	Manufacturing
1,319	Retail trade
886	Health care and social assistance
474	Accommodation and food services
461	Transportation and warehousing
435	Food services and drinking places
428	Wholesale trade
402	Restaurants and other eating places
380	Nursing and residential care facilities
309	Ambulatory health care services
291	Gasoline stations
259	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
197	Social assistance
188	Truck transportation
177	General freight trucking

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