The population of Charleston county is estimated at 396,570. In 2017 there were 5,038 births and 3,463 deaths in Charleston county. Charleston county has 63,049 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 24,019 that are owned free and clear and 57,241 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Charleston County filed 190,370 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 8.6% of all South Carolina filings and 0.128% of the entire nation. Charleston had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,730,324,000 on earned income of $15,161,225,000. Other notable statistics from Charleston County were 3,210 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,454,000 and 55,260 charitable contributions valued at $417,680,000. 57,390 filings from Charleston County paid a combined total of $179,629,000 in property taxes and 50,640 filings paid $501,971,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Charleston county had 477 religious congregations with an estimated 197,883 members.
41.9% of the Charleston population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 44% of Charleston County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 14,996 votes.
At $60,144 the median income is 118.7% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 7,135 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Charleston, the equivalant of around 3.5% 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 Charleston County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
30,476	Health care and social assistance
26,647	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
26,575	Accommodation and food services
26,156	Administrative and support services
26,034	Retail trade
21,042	Food services and drinking places
18,985	Restaurants and other eating places
17,778	Employment services
15,343	Professional, scientific, and technical services
13,984	Manufacturing
12,198	Full-service restaurants
9,581	Ambulatory health care services
7,983	Transportation equipment manufacturing
6,310	Finance and insurance
5,533	Accommodation

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.30% in Charleston County (averaging across 15 zip codes a sample of which are; 29407, 29466, 29401, 29464 and 29492).

In 2018 20.11% of listings in Charleston County (averaging across 16 zip codes a sample of which are; 29451, 29455, 29439, 29414 and 29464) dropped their price.

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