Current Population:

	Fayette	18,005
	Lamar	14,548
	Pickens	20,133

Unemployment – March 2008

	Fayette	5.1%
	Lamar	5.9%
	Pickens	5.2%
	Alabama	4.1%
	U.S.	5.1%

Current employment

	Fayette	5,358
	Lamar	3,929
	Pickens	4,172

Products produced

	Fayette	Lamar	Pickens
	Bituminous Coal Synthetic Gloves Truck Bodies Sawed Lumber Flooring Quarry Tile Military Uniforms Wiring Harnesses Finished Hardwood Flooring Women's Blouses, Active Wear Custom Lumber Conveyors Trucking Mess Wire Drawing Dies Fabricated Structural Metal Hauling, Utility Trailers	Mobile Homes Refuse Compactors Transmissions, Drive Trains for lift trucks Treated Timber, Lumber, Utility Poles Trucking Trucking Waelz Zinc Oxide Wood Office Furniture	Broilers Cat Litter Ductile Iron Casting Hardwood Flooring Hardwood Lumber Millwork Pine Lumber 2x4,2x6,4x4, Pine Rough, Dress & Pattern Lumber Rough Lumber Sawed Lumber Welding, Machine, Dies Wood Chips

Education
Fayette

K - 12 Berry Elementary School Berry High School Fayette Elementary School Fayette Middle School Fayette County High School Hubbertville School

Post-Secondary The Fayette Campus of Bevill State Community College serves approximately 1,000 students each semester with two-year academic and technical degrees available in many programs. Within one hour is the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; Mississippi University For Women in Columbus; and Mississippi State University in Starkville.

Lamar

K - 12 Lamar County High School Lamar County School of Tech. South Lamar School Sulligent Elementary School Sulligent High School Vernon Elementary School Vernon Intermediate School

Post-Secondary Within one hour of Lamar county is The University of North Alabama, in Florence well-known as a teachers and music college, and a branch of The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) is located in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Pickens

K - 12 Aliceville Elementary School Aliceville Middle School Aliceville High School Carrollton Elementary School Gordo Elementary School Gordo High School Pickens County High School Reform Elementary School

Post-Secondary The University of Alabama Medical School (UAB) and several other private institutions such as Birmingham-Southern University, Samford University, DeVry, Herzing, Cumberland School of Law and others are located just 90 minutes away in Birmingham from Pickens and the other counties.