The population of Berkeley county is estimated at 211,863. In 2017 there were 2,834 births and 1,496 deaths in Berkeley county. Berkeley county has 34,459 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,922 that are owned free and clear and 18,038 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Berkeley County filed 95,300 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.3% of all South Carolina filings and 0.064% of the entire nation. Berkeley had a combined total federal tax liability of $780,006,000 on earned income of $5,382,663,000. Other notable statistics from Berkeley County were 1,890 unemployment claims which collected a total of $6,952,000 and 21,890 charitable contributions valued at $113,277,000. 24,310 filings from Berkeley County paid a combined total of $52,527,000 in property taxes and 22,620 filings paid $177,255,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Berkeley county had 225 religious congregations with an estimated 54,341 members.
23.3% of the Berkeley population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 37% of Berkeley County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 17,808 votes.
At $57,399 the median income is 113.3% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 3,761 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Berkeley, the equivalant of around 3.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Berkeley County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,173	Retail trade
5,106	Manufacturing
4,605	Accommodation and food services
4,207	Food services and drinking places
3,951	Restaurants and other eating places
3,916	Information
2,735	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,710	Transportation and warehousing
2,377	Limited-service restaurants
2,343	Wholesale trade
2,318	Health care and social assistance
1,714	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
1,660	General merchandise stores
1,625	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,572	Primary metal manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.85% in Berkeley County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 29461, 29410, 29456 and 29445).

In 2018 20.07% of listings in Berkeley County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 29461, 29445, 29410 and 29456) dropped their price.

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