The population of Edgefield county is estimated at 26,580. In 2017 there were 199 births and 268 deaths in Edgefield county. Edgefield county has 4,245 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,867 that are owned free and clear and 2,236 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Edgefield County filed 10,370 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.5% of all South Carolina filings and 0.007% of the entire nation. Edgefield had a combined total federal tax liability of $71,858,000 on earned income of $525,470,000. Other notable statistics from Edgefield County were 310 unemployment claims which collected a total of $883,000 and 2,230 charitable contributions valued at $15,622,000. 2,300 filings from Edgefield County paid a combined total of $3,666,000 in property taxes and 1,960 filings paid $12,598,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Edgefield county had 46 religious congregations with an estimated 10,434 members.
19.5% of the Edgefield population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 18.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 44% of Edgefield County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 61 votes.
At $48,059 the median income is 94.8% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 482 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Edgefield, the equivalant of around 4.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Edgefield County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,213	Manufacturing
823	Transportation and warehousing
674	Textile mills
526	Health care and social assistance
408	Nonwoven fabric mills
405	Retail trade
197	Food services and drinking places
197	Restaurants and other eating places
185	Chemical manufacturing
185	Resin, synthetic rubber, and artificial synthetic fibers and filaments manufacturing
185	Resin and synthetic rubber manufacturing
185	Plastics material and resin manufacturing
125	Wholesale trade
108	Motor vehicle and parts dealers
97	Automobile dealers

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