Texas · Off-grid & homestead potential
Smith County is a solid bolthole (57/100). Its strengths are low extraction and seizure exposure and middling conditions for growing food. The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and little isolation — a major metro is just 8 mi away.
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Smith County is a solid bolthole (57/100). Its strengths: low extraction and seizure exposure and middling conditions for growing food. Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and little isolation — a major metro is just 8 mi away.
Land in Smith County runs about $7,161 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Smith County gets about 46.2" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 14.9% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 8 miles away, and population density is 266.1 people per square mile.