The population of Rutherford county is estimated at 307,683. In 2017 there were 4,173 births and 1,922 deaths in Rutherford county. Rutherford county has 52,007 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,442 that are owned free and clear and 30,783 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Rutherford County filed 143,830 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.8% of all Tennessee filings and 0.096% of the entire nation. Rutherford had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,166,411,000 on earned income of $8,048,779,000. Other notable statistics from Rutherford County were 2,160 unemployment claims which collected a total of $6,831,000 and 25,030 charitable contributions valued at $159,185,000. 26,770 filings from Rutherford County paid a combined total of $59,429,000 in property taxes and 24,850 filings paid $184,038,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Rutherford county had 275 religious congregations with an estimated 100,847 members.
31.8% of the Rutherford population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 35% of Rutherford County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 7,702 votes.
At $68,082 the median income is 132.7% of the Tennessee average. An estimated 4,896 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Rutherford, the equivalant of around 2.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Rutherford County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
14,761	Manufacturing
13,614	Health care and social assistance
12,376	Retail trade
11,020	Accommodation and food services
10,150	Food services and drinking places
9,519	Restaurants and other eating places
6,361	Wholesale trade
5,801	Transportation equipment manufacturing
5,542	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
5,501	Ambulatory health care services
5,316	Administrative and support services
5,069	Full-service restaurants
4,643	Hospitals
4,048	Limited-service restaurants
4,015	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.94% in Rutherford County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 37128, 37129, 37167, 37130 and 37127).

In 2018 16.17% of listings in Rutherford County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 37130, 37129, 37127, 37128 and 37086) dropped their price.

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