The population of Smith county is estimated at 225,305. In 2017 there were 3,159 births and 2,064 deaths in Smith county. Smith county has 31,447 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 21,122 that are owned free and clear and 26,486 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Smith County filed 98,700 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.8% of all Texas filings and 0.066% of the entire nation. Smith had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,034,503,000 on earned income of $5,944,405,000. Other notable statistics from Smith County were 3,390 unemployment claims which collected a total of $16,414,000 and 18,200 charitable contributions valued at $166,835,000. 18,140 filings from Smith County paid a combined total of $90,316,000 in property taxes and 14,400 filings paid $103,667,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Smith county had 373 religious congregations with an estimated 148,908 members.
25.2% of the Smith population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 37% of Smith County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,633 votes.
At $54,044 the median income is 91.3% of the Texas average. An estimated 4,297 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Smith, the equivalant of around 4.1% 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 Smith County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
21,211	Health care and social assistance
11,883	Retail trade
10,419	Ambulatory health care services
9,236	Accommodation and food services
8,281	Food services and drinking places
8,054	Restaurants and other eating places
6,739	Manufacturing
6,017	Hospitals
5,108	General medical and surgical hospitals
4,265	Professional, scientific, and technical services
3,786	Full-service restaurants
3,711	Limited-service restaurants
3,657	Home health care services
3,565	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,326	Administrative and support services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.41% in Smith County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 75771, 75707, 75757, 75703 and 75701).

In 2018 15.25% of listings in Smith County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 75771, 75791, 75707, 75701 and 75703) dropped their price.

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