The population of Benton county is estimated at 16,059. In 2017 there were 155 births and 255 deaths in Benton county. Benton county has 2,699 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,806 that are owned free and clear and 1,558 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Benton County filed 6,610 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all Tennessee filings and 0.004% of the entire nation. Benton had a combined total federal tax liability of $39,621,000 on earned income of $272,971,000. Other notable statistics from Benton County were 360 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,119,000 and 600 charitable contributions valued at $3,665,000. 630 filings from Benton County paid a combined total of $1,051,000 in property taxes and 490 filings paid $2,906,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Benton county had 56 religious congregations with an estimated 8,772 members.
12.8% of the Benton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 17.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 39% of Benton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 99 votes.
At $36,034 the median income is 70.2% of the Tennessee average. An estimated 364 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Benton, the equivalant of around 5.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 7.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Benton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
672	Health care and social assistance
631	Retail trade
596	Manufacturing
318	Ambulatory health care services
314	Food services and drinking places
314	Restaurants and other eating places
226	Transportation and warehousing
206	Truck transportation
173	Limited-service restaurants
147	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
140	Gasoline stations
119	Commercial banking
119	State commercial banks (banking)
117	Specialized freight trucking
102	Wood product manufacturing

In 2018 10.61% of listings in Benton County.

Interested in adding housing statistics for Benton County to your website? Click here for the QuantaLoan.com county widget code for Benton, Tennessee.