Table 2: 1997 Economic Census: Ranking by Retail Sales
South Carolina

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Retail_Trade_____ Number of establish- ments Retail sales Number of employees Payroll ($1,000) Popu- lation Retail sales per capita ($)
($1,000) rank
 
United States (preliminary) 1,120,249 2,456,574,247   14,115,559 238,792,423 267,636,061 9,179
 
South Carolina 18,481 33,634,264   209,256 3,107,153 3,788,119 8,879
 
Greenville County 1,852 4,496,435 1 24,775 380,225 349,356 12,871
Charleston County 1,850 3,483,688 2 22,298 347,722 313,478 11,113
Richland County 1,558 3,475,568 3 22,311 350,692 303,742 11,443
Horry County 1,522 2,505,210 4 14,457 230,737 169,501 14,780
Spartanburg County 1,117 2,311,553 5 13,785 213,524 245,182 9,428
Lexington County 803 1,803,659 6 10,332 156,574 200,622 8,990
Florence County 759 1,467,326 7 8,935 138,362 124,446 11,791
Anderson County 743 1,349,086 8 8,860 124,709 158,670 8,502
Beaufort County 751 1,340,911 9 7,444 129,174 106,739 12,563
York County 615 1,244,437 10 7,155 112,724 150,424 8,273
Aiken County 533 936,598 11 6,455 87,141 133,310 7,026
Sumter County 425 782,000 12 4,841 72,756 106,616 7,335
Orangeburg County 461 704,292 13 4,793 65,244 87,614 8,039
Pickens County 372 655,190 14 4,237 58,079 104,906 6,245
Greenwood County 339 606,124 15 4,601 60,688 63,230 9,586
Berkeley County 292 537,512 16 3,347 47,093 134,232 4,004
Dorchester County 282 516,925 17 3,450 46,294 86,538 5,973
Georgetown County 346 481,947 18 3,178 47,570 52,421 9,194
Darlington County 310 423,434 19 2,715 36,255 65,784 6,437
Oconee County 276 403,926 20 2,738 35,111 63,374 6,374
Lancaster County 264 401,331 21 2,608 36,339 57,812 6,942
Cherokee County 232 366,664 22 2,137 30,275 48,552 7,552
Kershaw County 221 296,489 23 2,150 27,226 47,819 6,200
Laurens County 200 296,203 24 1,743 24,380 62,368 4,749
Colleton County 188 259,419 25 1,890 23,454 37,074 6,997
Chesterfield County 182 240,894 26 1,632 21,420 40,711 5,917
Marion County 178 215,694 27 1,609 20,919 34,855 6,188
Newberry County 152 198,123 28 1,388 19,394 34,248 5,785
Dillon County 151 195,963 29 1,612 19,637 29,593 6,622
Chester County 129 186,091 30 1,142 14,395 33,782 5,509
Clarendon County 130 165,635 31 1,120 14,877 30,715 5,393
Williamsburg County 146 155,565 32 1,006 13,347 37,178 4,184
Union County 113 155,238 33 1,228 14,954 30,582 5,076
Marlboro County 115 122,298 34 796 10,618 29,689 4,119
Barnwell County 107 116,171 35 1,020 11,608 21,752 5,341
Hampton County 131 114,139 36 952 10,831 19,096 5,977
Fairfield County 70 82,793 37 764 7,140 22,342 3,706
Edgefield County 79 78,776 38 455 6,541 19,737 3,991
Jasper County 79 76,916 39 531 6,751 16,964 4,534
Saluda County 67 76,390 40 415 5,366 16,865 4,529
Lee County 74 72,444 41 576 6,637 20,237 3,580
Bamberg County 78 68,364 42 524 6,445 16,613 4,115
Abbeville County 65 58,604 43 469 5,243 24,459 2,396
Allendale County 46 53,628 44 311 3,770 11,552 4,642
Calhoun County 37 31,113 45 267 2,922 13,804 2,254
McCormick County 41 23,498 46 204 1,990 9,535 2,464

These data include establishments with paid employees, except auxiliaries.
Source: 1997 Economic Census, and 1997 population estimates, data available as of 11/29/99 For data issued since that date, or other areas, see www.census.gov/econ97.