The population of Chatham county is estimated at 289,390. In 2017 there were 4,005 births and 2,516 deaths in Chatham county. Chatham county has 43,417 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 16,049 that are owned free and clear and 43,572 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Chatham County filed 125,870 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.8% of all Georgia filings and 0.084% of the entire nation. Chatham had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,179,383,000 on earned income of $7,423,182,000. Other notable statistics from Chatham County were 2,210 unemployment claims which collected a total of $6,715,000 and 33,400 charitable contributions valued at $280,509,000. 31,840 filings from Chatham County paid a combined total of $115,958,000 in property taxes and 27,870 filings paid $208,876,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Chatham county had 324 religious congregations with an estimated 150,853 members.
33.2% of the Chatham population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 37% of Chatham County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 2,254 votes.
At $54,667 the median income is 97.4% of the Georgia average. An estimated 6,259 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Chatham, the equivalant of around 4.5% 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 Chatham County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
18,354	Health care and social assistance
18,046	Accommodation and food services
15,767	Retail trade
14,237	Food services and drinking places
13,829	Manufacturing
13,284	Restaurants and other eating places
9,633	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
9,448	Transportation and warehousing
7,640	Full-service restaurants
7,199	Ambulatory health care services
6,547	Hospitals
5,871	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,986	Limited-service restaurants
3,925	Wholesale trade
3,852	Offices of physicians

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.28% in Chatham County (averaging across 10 zip codes a sample of which are; 31410, 31404, 31406 and 31419).

In 2018 15.11% of listings in Chatham County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 31404, 31419 and 31405) dropped their price.

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