The population of Cherokee county is estimated at 51,896. In 2017 there were 777 births and 523 deaths in Cherokee county. Cherokee county has 6,053 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,908 that are owned free and clear and 4,933 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Cherokee County filed 20,360 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all Texas filings and 0.014% of the entire nation. Cherokee had a combined total federal tax liability of $153,588,000 on earned income of $953,207,000. Other notable statistics from Cherokee County were 720 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,851,000 and 2,240 charitable contributions valued at $16,415,000. 2,320 filings from Cherokee County paid a combined total of $9,453,000 in property taxes and 1,780 filings paid $12,280,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Cherokee county had 127 religious congregations with an estimated 29,483 members.
18.1% of the Cherokee population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 20.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 32% of Cherokee County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 314 votes.
At $47,147 the median income is 79.6% of the Texas average. An estimated 936 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Cherokee, the equivalant of around 4.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Cherokee County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,711	Manufacturing
2,521	Health care and social assistance
1,438	Retail trade
1,354	Hospitals
828	Accommodation and food services
779	Food services and drinking places
613	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
595	Administrative and support services
591	Transportation and warehousing
590	Wood product manufacturing
526	Nursing and residential care facilities
499	Limited-service restaurants
492	Ambulatory health care services
422	General merchandise stores
422	Other general merchandise stores

In 2018 16.67% of listings in Cherokee County.

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