The population of Cherokee county is estimated at 241,600. In 2017 there were 2,791 births and 1,489 deaths in Cherokee county. Cherokee county has 50,566 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 9,834 that are owned free and clear and 15,536 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Cherokee County filed 111,070 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.5% of all Georgia filings and 0.075% of the entire nation. Cherokee had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,207,526,000 on earned income of $8,130,791,000. Other notable statistics from Cherokee County were 1,990 unemployment claims which collected a total of $6,249,000 and 40,520 charitable contributions valued at $222,860,000. 42,330 filings from Cherokee County paid a combined total of $123,677,000 in property taxes and 39,590 filings paid $312,776,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Cherokee county had 154 religious congregations with an estimated 91,450 members.
35.7% of the Cherokee population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 46% of Cherokee County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 12,784 votes.
At $78,247 the median income is 139.4% of the Georgia average. An estimated 4,856 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Cherokee, the equivalant of around 3.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Cherokee County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,254	Retail trade
6,256	Accommodation and food services
6,139	Food services and drinking places
5,913	Restaurants and other eating places
5,141	Health care and social assistance
3,813	Manufacturing
3,072	Full-service restaurants
2,928	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,735	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,691	Administrative and support services
2,608	Limited-service restaurants
2,414	Ambulatory health care services
2,148	Food and beverage stores
2,067	Grocery stores
2,042	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.60% in Cherokee County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 30107, 30189, 30115, 30188 and 30183).

In 2018 17.62% of listings in Cherokee County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 30114, 30183, 30107, 30188 and 30189) dropped their price.

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