The population of Bedford county is estimated at 47,420. In 2017 there were 617 births and 488 deaths in Bedford county. Bedford county has 7,508 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,026 that are owned free and clear and 4,996 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Bedford County filed 20,920 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.7% of all Tennessee filings and 0.014% of the entire nation. Bedford had a combined total federal tax liability of $155,017,000 on earned income of $985,909,000. Other notable statistics from Bedford County were 410 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,023,000 and 1,950 charitable contributions valued at $16,452,000. 2,170 filings from Bedford County paid a combined total of $4,189,000 in property taxes and 1,840 filings paid $13,406,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Bedford county had 102 religious congregations with an estimated 20,125 members.
15.7% of the Bedford population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 18.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 32% of Bedford County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 867 votes.
At $50,904 the median income is 99.2% of the Tennessee average. An estimated 804 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Bedford, the equivalant of around 3.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Bedford County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,882	Manufacturing
1,514	Transportation and warehousing
1,502	Retail trade
986	Health care and social assistance
833	Accommodation and food services
795	Food services and drinking places
779	Restaurants and other eating places
730	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
451	Limited-service restaurants
412	Finance and insurance
370	Credit intermediation and related activities
338	Miscellaneous manufacturing
318	Ambulatory health care services
257	Other services (except public administration)
218	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.13% in Bedford County.

In 2018 14.19% of listings in Bedford County.

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