The population of Houston county is estimated at 104,173. In 2017 there were 1,286 births and 1,116 deaths in Houston county. Houston county has 17,517 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 9,414 that are owned free and clear and 14,038 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Houston County filed 44,380 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.2% of all Alabama filings and 0.030% of the entire nation. Houston had a combined total federal tax liability of $381,678,000 on earned income of $2,392,898,000. Other notable statistics from Houston County were 820 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,589,000 and 8,480 charitable contributions valued at $69,506,000. 8,100 filings from Houston County paid a combined total of $9,839,000 in property taxes and 7,360 filings paid $52,854,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Houston county had 210 religious congregations with an estimated 81,059 members.
20.9% of the Houston population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 14.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 40% of Houston County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 187 votes.
At $44,753 the median income is 92.9% of the Alabama average. An estimated 1,927 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Houston, the equivalant of around 4.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Houston County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
10,030	Administrative and support services
9,145	Health care and social assistance
7,598	Retail trade
4,602	Accommodation and food services
4,192	Food services and drinking places
4,185	Hospitals
4,103	Restaurants and other eating places
3,985	Manufacturing
3,121	Ambulatory health care services
1,938	Full-service restaurants
1,830	Limited-service restaurants
1,823	Offices of physicians
1,790	Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists)
1,776	General merchandise stores
1,317	Transportation and warehousing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.00% in Houston County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 36305, 36301 and 36303).

In 2018 12.67% of listings in Houston County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 36303, 36301 and 36305) dropped their price.

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