The population of Anderson county is estimated at 195,968. In 2017 there were 2,303 births and 2,118 deaths in Anderson county. Anderson county has 33,690 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 19,325 that are owned free and clear and 20,814 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Anderson County filed 85,170 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.9% of all South Carolina filings and 0.057% of the entire nation. Anderson had a combined total federal tax liability of $610,331,000 on earned income of $4,448,061,000. Other notable statistics from Anderson County were 2,220 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,284,000 and 18,440 charitable contributions valued at $118,101,000. 19,310 filings from Anderson County paid a combined total of $34,297,000 in property taxes and 16,710 filings paid $111,327,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Anderson county had 338 religious congregations with an estimated 121,561 members.
20.8% of the Anderson population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 41% of Anderson County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 8,395 votes.
At $48,846 the median income is 96.4% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 3,514 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Anderson, the equivalant of around 3.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Anderson County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
10,223	Manufacturing
8,472	Retail trade
8,273	Health care and social assistance
6,019	Accommodation and food services
5,620	Food services and drinking places
5,433	Restaurants and other eating places
4,303	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,090	Administrative and support services
3,448	Other services (except public administration)
3,135	Employment services
2,829	Repair and maintenance
2,582	Full-service restaurants
2,578	Ambulatory health care services
2,563	Limited-service restaurants
2,514	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.26% in Anderson County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 29627, 29669, 29626 and 29697).

In 2018 9.41% of listings in Anderson County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 29627, 29669, 29670 and 29625) dropped their price.

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