The population of Chester county is estimated at 17,102. In 2017 there were 170 births and 157 deaths in Chester county. Chester county has 2,625 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 1,909 that are owned free and clear and 1,674 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Chester County filed 6,660 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all Tennessee filings and 0.004% of the entire nation. Chester had a combined total federal tax liability of $38,758,000 on earned income of $287,360,000. Other notable statistics from Chester County were 200 unemployment claims which collected a total of $513,000 and 700 charitable contributions valued at $4,989,000. 690 filings from Chester County paid a combined total of $1,010,000 in property taxes and 580 filings paid $3,646,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Chester county had 49 religious congregations with an estimated 8,730 members.
16.5% of the Chester population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 28% of Chester County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,546 votes.
At $45,261 the median income is 88.2% of the Tennessee average. An estimated 338 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Chester, the equivalant of around 4.0% 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 Chester County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
455	Health care and social assistance
440	Retail trade
388	Manufacturing
284	Restaurants and other eating places
156	Ambulatory health care services
106	Finance and insurance
93	Credit intermediation and related activities
72	Offices of physicians
72	Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists)
69	Depository credit intermediation
69	Commercial banking
69	State commercial banks (banking)
64	Automobile dealers
51	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
51	Administrative and support services

In 2018 9.09% of listings in Chester County.

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