The population of Sumter county is estimated at 107,287. In 2017 there were 1,446 births and 1,055 deaths in Sumter county. Sumter county has 17,508 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 9,506 that are owned free and clear and 13,384 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Sumter County filed 46,710 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.1% of all South Carolina filings and 0.031% of the entire nation. Sumter had a combined total federal tax liability of $282,017,000 on earned income of $1,997,491,000. Other notable statistics from Sumter County were 1,140 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,154,000 and 7,850 charitable contributions valued at $50,269,000. 7,820 filings from Sumter County paid a combined total of $14,295,000 in property taxes and 6,740 filings paid $40,181,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Sumter county had 215 religious congregations with an estimated 60,153 members.
19.5% of the Sumter population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 16.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 41% of Sumter County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 3,213 votes.
At $44,375 the median income is 87.6% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 2,318 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Sumter, the equivalant of around 5.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Sumter County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
5,524	Manufacturing
5,504	Health care and social assistance
4,416	Retail trade
2,951	Accommodation and food services
2,742	Food services and drinking places
2,477	Restaurants and other eating places
1,942	Ambulatory health care services
1,402	Limited-service restaurants
1,036	Food and beverage stores
996	Other services (except public administration)
969	Grocery stores
954	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
902	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
902	General merchandise stores
819	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.21% in Sumter County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 29040 and 29154).

In 2018 8.52% of listings in Sumter County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 29154 and 29040) dropped their price.

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