The population of Horry county is estimated at 321,440. In 2017 there were 3,202 births and 3,443 deaths in Horry county. Horry county has 49,985 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 27,012 that are owned free and clear and 35,228 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Horry County filed 158,360 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 7.2% of all South Carolina filings and 0.106% of the entire nation. Horry had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,112,082,000 on earned income of $7,779,689,000. Other notable statistics from Horry County were 5,220 unemployment claims which collected a total of $16,278,000 and 31,830 charitable contributions valued at $166,310,000. 33,810 filings from Horry County paid a combined total of $70,688,000 in property taxes and 29,780 filings paid $224,281,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Horry county had 372 religious congregations with an estimated 109,924 members.
23.0% of the Horry population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 39% of Horry County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 19,919 votes.
At $45,979 the median income is 90.7% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 7,106 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Horry, the equivalant of around 5.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Horry County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
25,903	Accommodation and food services
20,687	Retail trade
17,629	Food services and drinking places
16,729	Restaurants and other eating places
10,903	Health care and social assistance
10,731	Full-service restaurants
8,274	Accommodation
7,762	Traveler accommodation
4,619	Ambulatory health care services
4,525	Clothing and clothing accessories stores
4,496	Real estate and rental and leasing
4,433	General merchandise stores
4,420	Arts, entertainment, and recreation
4,188	Limited-service restaurants
4,075	Real estate

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.43% in Horry County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 29566, 29527, 29588, 29568 and 29575).

In 2018 13.66% of listings in Horry County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 29569, 29579, 29576, 29568 and 29526) dropped their price.

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