The population of Lawrence county is estimated at 42,979. In 2017 there were 567 births and 492 deaths in Lawrence county. Lawrence county has 6,765 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,425 that are owned free and clear and 4,085 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lawrence County filed 17,020 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.6% of all Tennessee filings and 0.011% of the entire nation. Lawrence had a combined total federal tax liability of $104,256,000 on earned income of $739,798,000. Other notable statistics from Lawrence County were 640 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,908,000 and 1,600 charitable contributions valued at $12,191,000. 1,660 filings from Lawrence County paid a combined total of $2,714,000 in property taxes and 1,400 filings paid $8,587,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lawrence county had 132 religious congregations with an estimated 25,823 members.
12.2% of the Lawrence population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 19.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 36% of Lawrence County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 439 votes.
At $41,505 the median income is 80.9% of the Tennessee average. An estimated 775 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lawrence, the equivalant of around 4.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Lawrence County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,683	Manufacturing
1,512	Retail trade
1,311	Health care and social assistance
924	Transportation and warehousing
851	Accommodation and food services
801	Food services and drinking places
501	Limited-service restaurants
457	Ambulatory health care services
403	Other general merchandise stores
403	General merchandise stores
399	General freight trucking
378	General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload
378	General freight trucking, long-distance
303	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
283	Full-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.52% in Lawrence County.

In 2018 16.67% of listings in Lawrence County.

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