The population of Dorchester county is estimated at 153,471. In 2017 there were 1,803 births and 1,121 deaths in Dorchester county. Dorchester county has 27,770 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,303 that are owned free and clear and 14,186 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Dorchester County filed 70,750 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.2% of all South Carolina filings and 0.047% of the entire nation. Dorchester had a combined total federal tax liability of $497,170,000 on earned income of $3,847,058,000. Other notable statistics from Dorchester County were 1,400 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,176,000 and 17,860 charitable contributions valued at $73,706,000. 19,810 filings from Dorchester County paid a combined total of $42,062,000 in property taxes and 18,560 filings paid $134,940,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Dorchester county had 166 religious congregations with an estimated 56,226 members.
27.4% of the Dorchester population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 41% of Dorchester County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 5,728 votes.
At $63,269 the median income is 124.9% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 2,850 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Dorchester, the equivalant of around 3.8% 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 Dorchester County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
4,439	Manufacturing
3,697	Retail trade
3,170	Health care and social assistance
2,879	Accommodation and food services
2,775	Food services and drinking places
2,754	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,702	Restaurants and other eating places
2,456	Transportation equipment manufacturing
2,415	Administrative and support services
1,424	Limited-service restaurants
1,204	Ambulatory health care services
1,164	Food and beverage stores
1,161	Full-service restaurants
1,107	Grocery stores
1,101	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.83% in Dorchester County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 29483, 29485 and 29486).

In 2018 22.15% of listings in Dorchester County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 29486, 29485 and 29483) dropped their price.

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