The population of Houston county is estimated at 151,862. In 2017 there were 2,018 births and 1,234 deaths in Houston county. Houston county has 27,013 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,351 that are owned free and clear and 17,687 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Houston County filed 68,000 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.5% of all Georgia filings and 0.046% of the entire nation. Houston had a combined total federal tax liability of $505,658,000 on earned income of $3,646,799,000. Other notable statistics from Houston County were 1,360 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,563,000 and 19,410 charitable contributions valued at $125,786,000. 18,480 filings from Houston County paid a combined total of $41,568,000 in property taxes and 16,900 filings paid $103,802,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Houston county had 143 religious congregations with an estimated 73,831 members.
25.4% of the Houston population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 39% of Houston County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,647 votes.
At $59,291 the median income is 105.7% of the Georgia average. An estimated 3,295 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Houston, the equivalant of around 4.8% 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 Houston County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,625	Retail trade
5,917	Health care and social assistance
5,726	Accommodation and food services
5,139	Food services and drinking places
4,978	Restaurants and other eating places
3,288	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,105	Manufacturing
2,487	Limited-service restaurants
2,269	Full-service restaurants
2,070	Ambulatory health care services
1,730	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,266	Food and beverage stores
1,169	Grocery stores
1,154	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
1,077	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.66% in Houston County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 31047, 31093, 31005, 31088 and 31069).

In 2018 9.75% of listings in Houston County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 31047, 31005, 31069, 31028 and 31093) dropped their price.

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