The population of Houston county is estimated at 8,118. In 2017 there were 86 births and 97 deaths in Houston county. Houston county has 1,365 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 1,179 that are owned free and clear and 805 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Houston County filed 3,330 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.1% of all Tennessee filings and 0.002% of the entire nation. Houston had a combined total federal tax liability of $19,648,000 on earned income of $145,352,000. Other notable statistics from Houston County were 140 unemployment claims which collected a total of $491,000 and 290 charitable contributions valued at $1,539,000. 330 filings from Houston County paid a combined total of $559,000 in property taxes and 280 filings paid $1,806,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Houston county had 30 religious congregations with an estimated 3,633 members.
10.7% of the Houston population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 22.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 39% of Houston County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 138 votes.
At $42,018 the median income is 81.9% of the Tennessee average. An estimated 184 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Houston, the equivalant of around 5.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 7.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Houston County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
408	Health care and social assistance
207	Manufacturing
154	Retail trade
125	Food services and drinking places
125	Restaurants and other eating places
67	Full-service restaurants
58	Limited-service restaurants
50	Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists)
50	Ambulatory health care services
50	Offices of physicians
30	Child day care services
27	Credit intermediation and related activities
27	Depository credit intermediation
21	Professional, scientific, and technical services
15	Gasoline stations

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