Retail_Trade_____ | Number of establish- ments | Retail sales | Number of employees | Payroll ($1,000) | Popu- lation | Retail sales per capita ($) | |
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($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.