The population of Bell county is estimated at 341,203. In 2017 there were 6,314 births and 2,183 deaths in Bell county. Bell county has 46,007 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 17,417 that are owned free and clear and 50,611 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Bell County filed 147,100 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.2% of all Texas filings and 0.099% of the entire nation. Bell had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,097,499,000 on earned income of $7,152,137,000. Other notable statistics from Bell County were 4,110 unemployment claims which collected a total of $21,323,000 and 18,640 charitable contributions valued at $134,671,000. 20,370 filings from Bell County paid a combined total of $91,471,000 in property taxes and 18,790 filings paid $129,780,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Bell county had 316 religious congregations with an estimated 146,711 members.
24.2% of the Bell population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 28% of Bell County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 8,234 votes.
At $52,164 the median income is 88.1% of the Texas average. An estimated 5,928 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Bell, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Bell County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
22,484	Health care and social assistance
13,098	Retail trade
11,467	Accommodation and food services
10,526	Food services and drinking places
7,864	Ambulatory health care services
5,724	Manufacturing
4,948	Limited-service restaurants
4,190	Full-service restaurants
3,505	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,898	Other services (except public administration)
2,858	Information
2,752	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,697	Nursing and residential care facilities
2,660	Finance and insurance
2,618	Transportation and warehousing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.36% in Bell County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 76549, 76541, 76513, 76542 and 76548).

In 2018 13.17% of listings in Bell County (averaging across 10 zip codes a sample of which are; 76513, 76571, 76543, 76542 and 76548) dropped their price.

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