The population of Shelby county is estimated at 25,777. In 2017 there were 390 births and 295 deaths in Shelby county. Shelby county has 2,788 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,432 that are owned free and clear and 2,428 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Shelby County filed 10,020 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.1% of all Texas filings and 0.007% of the entire nation. Shelby had a combined total federal tax liability of $69,128,000 on earned income of $419,894,000. Other notable statistics from Shelby County were 420 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,404,000 and 1,050 charitable contributions valued at $8,320,000. 880 filings from Shelby County paid a combined total of $2,373,000 in property taxes and 710 filings paid $4,236,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Shelby county had 94 religious congregations with an estimated 13,699 members.
15.3% of the Shelby population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 24.5% 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 189 votes.
At $39,745 the median income is 67.1% of the Texas average. An estimated 552 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Shelby, the equivalant of around 5.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Shelby County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,465	Manufacturing
1,087	Retail trade
820	Health care and social assistance
343	Food services and drinking places
343	Restaurants and other eating places
273	Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities)
229	Truck transportation
211	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
211	Limited-service restaurants
208	Ambulatory health care services
190	Food and beverage stores
181	Grocery stores
167	Depository credit intermediation
166	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
154	Administrative and support services

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