The population of Aiken county is estimated at 166,922. In 2017 there were 1,980 births and 1,777 deaths in Aiken county. Aiken county has 29,162 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 17,794 that are owned free and clear and 17,297 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Aiken County filed 72,840 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.3% of all South Carolina filings and 0.049% of the entire nation. Aiken had a combined total federal tax liability of $573,772,000 on earned income of $4,110,450,000. Other notable statistics from Aiken County were 1,690 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,101,000 and 18,600 charitable contributions valued at $118,562,000. 18,830 filings from Aiken County paid a combined total of $33,220,000 in property taxes and 15,760 filings paid $98,600,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Aiken county had 267 religious congregations with an estimated 96,010 members.
25.8% of the Aiken population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 45% of Aiken County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 8,724 votes.
At $51,583 the median income is 101.8% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 3,056 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Aiken, 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 5.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Aiken County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,845	Manufacturing
6,601	Retail trade
6,330	Health care and social assistance
4,751	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,227	Food services and drinking places
4,013	Restaurants and other eating places
2,136	Limited-service restaurants
2,132	Ambulatory health care services
1,828	Transportation and warehousing
1,727	General merchandise stores
1,404	Food and beverage stores
1,403	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
1,328	Finance and insurance
1,325	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
1,321	Other general merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.51% in Aiken County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 29860, 29841, 29801, 29829 and 29803).

In 2018 11.65% of listings in Aiken County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 29829, 29803, 29860, 29805 and 29841) dropped their price.

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