The population of Pickens county is estimated at 122,939. In 2017 there were 1,244 births and 1,145 deaths in Pickens county. Pickens county has 19,641 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 11,520 that are owned free and clear and 14,067 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Pickens County filed 49,310 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.2% of all South Carolina filings and 0.033% of the entire nation. Pickens had a combined total federal tax liability of $386,835,000 on earned income of $2,654,224,000. Other notable statistics from Pickens County were 1,140 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,052,000 and 10,360 charitable contributions valued at $78,431,000. 10,760 filings from Pickens County paid a combined total of $18,932,000 in property taxes and 9,110 filings paid $58,680,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Pickens county had 194 religious congregations with an estimated 60,188 members.
23.6% of the Pickens population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 40% of Pickens County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 3,449 votes.
At $48,133 the median income is 95.0% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 2,338 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Pickens, the equivalant of around 4.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.0%.

Top 15 Industries in Pickens County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
4,713	Manufacturing
4,215	Retail trade
4,212	Accommodation and food services
3,954	Food services and drinking places
3,459	Health care and social assistance
3,218	Restaurants and other eating places
1,768	Limited-service restaurants
1,617	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,056	Food and beverage stores
1,011	General merchandise stores
990	Grocery stores
937	Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores
872	Ambulatory health care services
865	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
846	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.49% in Pickens County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 29642, 29640 and 29671).

In 2018 10.66% of listings in Pickens County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 29685, 29671, 29642, 29631 and 29657) dropped their price.

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