The population of Shelby county is estimated at 937,130 where 788,406 speak English exclusively and 7,473 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 13,196 births and 8,200 deaths in Shelby county. Shelby county has 162,369 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 49,647 that are owned free and clear and 138,955 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Shelby County filed 431,650 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 14.4% of all Tennessee filings and 0.290% of the entire nation. Shelby had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $4,816,501,000 on earned income of $25,843,890,000. Other notable statistics from Shelby County were 8,020 unemployment claims which collected a total of $26,306,000 and 101,210 charitable contributions valued at $928,554,000. 90,030 filings from Shelby County paid a combined total of $370,946,000 in property taxes and 78,390 filings paid $563,716,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Shelby county had 1,026 religious congregations with an estimated 588,132 members.
30.6% of the Shelby population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 35% of Shelby County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 38,888 votes.
At $49,563 the median income is 96.6% of the Tennessee average. An estimated 18,976 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Shelby, the equivalant of around 4.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Shelby County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
68,016	Health care and social assistance
53,471	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
52,631	Transportation and warehousing
52,339	Administrative and support services
46,778	Retail trade
36,739	Accommodation and food services
32,713	Food services and drinking places
31,363	Employment services
29,553	Restaurants and other eating places
25,677	Hospitals
24,360	Manufacturing
24,270	Wholesale trade
24,076	Ambulatory health care services
20,436	Finance and insurance
19,953	General medical and surgical hospitals

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.16% in Shelby County (averaging across 25 zip codes a sample of which are; 38053, 38002, 38122 and 38138).

In 2018 14.56% of listings in Shelby County (averaging across 30 zip codes a sample of which are; 38119, 38104, 38138, 38103 and 38053) dropped their price.

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