The population of Blount county is estimated at 128,244. In 2017 there were 1,246 births and 1,349 deaths in Blount county. Blount county has 23,069 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,462 that are owned free and clear and 12,734 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Blount County filed 59,550 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.0% of all Tennessee filings and 0.040% of the entire nation. Blount had a combined total federal tax liability of $508,633,000 on earned income of $3,381,616,000. Other notable statistics from Blount County were 1,190 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,551,000 and 10,080 charitable contributions valued at $71,879,000. 10,900 filings from Blount County paid a combined total of $26,775,000 in property taxes and 9,240 filings paid $72,226,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Blount county had 186 religious congregations with an estimated 70,799 members.
23.4% of the Blount population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 40% of Blount County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 2,649 votes.
At $51,391 the median income is 100.1% of the Tennessee average. An estimated 2,152 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Blount, the equivalant of around 3.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Blount County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,554	Health care and social assistance
5,651	Retail trade
5,417	Manufacturing
4,526	Accommodation and food services
3,937	Food services and drinking places
3,787	Restaurants and other eating places
2,071	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,062	Finance and insurance
1,995	Full-service restaurants
1,953	Administrative and support services
1,879	Transportation and warehousing
1,769	Ambulatory health care services
1,740	Credit intermediation and related activities
1,585	Limited-service restaurants
1,364	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.24% in Blount County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 37777, 37882, 37804, 37801 and 37803).

In 2018 11.57% of listings in Blount County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 37803, 37777, 37882, 37801 and 37737) dropped their price.

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