The population of York county is estimated at 257,998. In 2017 there were 3,036 births and 2,052 deaths in York county. York county has 47,548 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 14,571 that are owned free and clear and 23,745 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of York County filed 118,350 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 5.4% of all South Carolina filings and 0.079% of the entire nation. York had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,161,116,000 on earned income of $7,865,481,000. Other notable statistics from York County were 3,090 unemployment claims which collected a total of $9,805,000 and 36,010 charitable contributions valued at $188,423,000. 38,160 filings from York County paid a combined total of $90,212,000 in property taxes and 34,960 filings paid $270,447,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 York county had 326 religious congregations with an estimated 112,306 members.
31.1% of the York population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 44% of York County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 13,997 votes.
At $62,620 the median income is 123.6% of the South Carolina average. An estimated 5,301 people claimed to be unemployed last year in York, the equivalant of around 4.0% 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 York County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,498	Retail trade
8,980	Health care and social assistance
8,310	Manufacturing
7,094	Accommodation and food services
6,682	Food services and drinking places
6,157	Restaurants and other eating places
5,357	Finance and insurance
4,631	Credit intermediation and related activities
4,583	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,355	Administrative and support services
4,335	Wholesale trade
3,674	Ambulatory health care services
3,410	Depository credit intermediation
3,175	Limited-service restaurants
3,163	Commercial banking

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.30% in York County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 29710, 29730, 29732, 29715 and 29707).

In 2018 14.28% of listings in York County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 29730, 29715, 29732, 29707 and 29745) dropped their price.

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