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Hideaway is an incorporated city that is also a gated residential community in northwestern Smith County, about thirteen miles northwest of Tyler and just north of Interstate 20.

The land Hideaway sits on was once part of a large plantation settled in the 1850s by the family of Richard B. Hubbard Jr., who later became governor of Texas.

Developer James Fair launched the community in 1967 under the name 'Hide-A-Way Lake,' building it around three small man-made lakes.

Hideaway was planned on a grand scale for a lake retreat, covering more than 1,300 acres with about 1,944 authorized residential lots.

The community's amenities include a 27-hole golf course, a clubhouse, a lodge, parks, and lake access for boating and fishing, all behind manned security gates.

Hideaway's two original corporate entities, Hideaway Homeowners, Inc. and Hideaway Lake Club, Inc., merged in 2000, and the city incorporated under the organization of Hideaway Lake Club, Inc.

Hideaway had a population of 3,201 at the 2020 census, up from 3,083 in 2010.

Hideaway's 3,201 residents lived in 1,465 households in 2020, and the community leans heavily toward retirees, with a median age of 62.8 years.

Hideaway is overwhelmingly a homeowners' community — Census survey estimates put its homeownership rate at about 94%, far above the Texas average.

Hideaway is part of the Tyler metropolitan area, and its schoolchildren are served by the Lindale Independent School District.