The population of Lexington county is estimated at 286,394. In 2017 there were 3,244 births and 2,411 deaths in Lexington county. Lexington county has 54,808 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 20,983 that are owned free and clear and 26,942 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lexington County filed 129,130 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.9% of all South Carolina filings and 0.087% of the entire nation. Lexington had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,114,177,000 on earned income of $7,734,061,000. Other notable statistics from Lexington County were 2,390 unemployment claims which collected a total of $8,026,000 and 34,230 charitable contributions valued at $213,379,000. 36,640 filings from Lexington County paid a combined total of $69,680,000 in property taxes and 32,570 filings paid $221,527,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lexington county had 307 religious congregations with an estimated 126,818 members.
30.1% of the Lexington population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 43% of Lexington County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 9,625 votes.
At $60,329 the median income is 119.1% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 5,354 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lexington, the equivalant of around 3.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Lexington County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
15,123	Retail trade
12,620	Health care and social assistance
10,122	Accommodation and food services
9,521	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
9,458	Food services and drinking places
9,231	Restaurants and other eating places
9,124	Administrative and support services
8,527	Manufacturing
5,744	Wholesale trade
5,707	Employment services
5,211	Transportation and warehousing
4,508	Full-service restaurants
4,170	Limited-service restaurants
3,664	General merchandise stores
3,352	Ambulatory health care services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.92% in Lexington County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 29072, 29073, 29169, 29033 and 29054).

In 2018 16.56% of listings in Lexington County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 29073, 29170, 29072 and 29169) dropped their price.

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