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  The population of Richland county is estimated at 409,104. In 2017 there were 4,922 births and 3,126 deaths in Richland county. Richland county has 68,667 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 20,356 that are owned free and clear and 56,171 that are renter occupied.


  The upstanding residents of Richland County filed 179,350 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 8.1% of all South Carolina filings and 0.120% of the entire nation. Richland had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,597,043,000 on earned income of $10,549,049,000. Other notable statistics from Richland County were 4,160 unemployment claims which collected a total of $13,005,000 and 48,220 charitable contributions valued at $316,966,000. 48,550 filings from Richland County paid a combined total of $119,358,000 in property taxes and 43,750 filings paid $305,378,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Richland county had 458 religious congregations with an estimated 197,190 members.

37.7% of the Richland population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.


About 41% of Richland County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 26,384 votes.

At $52,187 the median income is 103.0% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 8,525 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Richland, the equivalant of around 4.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.8%.


Top 15 Industries in Richland County.
Total # EmployedIndustry Job Type
26,658Health care and social assistance
18,443Retail trade
17,706Accommodation and food services
17,377Finance and insurance
15,695Food services and drinking places
13,958Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
13,576Administrative and support services
13,037Professional, scientific, and technical services
12,811Restaurants and other eating places
11,475Insurance carriers and related activities
11,078Hospitals
9,990Insurance carriers
9,355Manufacturing
8,980Direct life, health, and medical insurance carriers
8,561Ambulatory health care services


In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.93% in Richland County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 29016, 29212, 29210, 29201 and 29209).

In 2018 13.54% of listings in Richland County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 29016, 29223, 29209, 29210 and 29204) dropped their price.


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