The population of Florence county is estimated at 138,448. In 2017 there were 1,653 births and 1,529 deaths in Florence county. Florence county has 22,330 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,196 that are owned free and clear and 17,127 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Florence County filed 59,340 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.7% of all South Carolina filings and 0.040% of the entire nation. Florence had a combined total federal tax liability of $454,829,000 on earned income of $2,996,756,000. Other notable statistics from Florence County were 1,520 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,061,000 and 12,200 charitable contributions valued at $90,828,000. 12,020 filings from Florence County paid a combined total of $19,478,000 in property taxes and 10,210 filings paid $66,953,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Florence county had 302 religious congregations with an estimated 75,363 members.
22.5% of the Florence population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 42% of Florence County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 107 votes.
At $43,727 the median income is 86.3% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 2,989 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Florence, 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 5.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Florence County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
13,444	Health care and social assistance
8,277	Retail trade
5,860	Manufacturing
5,423	Accommodation and food services
4,485	Finance and insurance
4,451	Ambulatory health care services
4,438	Food services and drinking places
4,211	Restaurants and other eating places
3,699	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,669	Employment services
2,642	Temporary help services
2,493	Wholesale trade
2,429	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,246	Insurance carriers and related activities
2,166	Credit intermediation and related activities

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.63% in Florence County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 29501 and 29505).

In 2018 12.36% of listings in Florence County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 29501, 29506 and 29505) dropped their price.

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