County Percent Change from 1980 to 1990 Percent Change from 1990 to 2000
Total Males Females Total Males Females
Abbeville 5.5 4.1 6.7 9.7 10.9 8.5
Aiken 14.5 13.9 15.0 17.9 17.2 18.5
Allendale 9.6 16.9 2.9 -4.4 -1.7 -7.1
Anderson 9.0 8.6 9.3 14.1 15.3 13.1
Bamberg -6.7 -7.3 -6.2 -1.4 -1.1 -1.7
Barnwell 2.1 2.4 1.9 15.7 16.0 15.5
Beaufort 32.2 25.7 39.7 39.9 39.7 40.2
Berkeley 35.9 36.1 35.8 10.8 11.5 10.0
Calhoun 4.5 3.6 5.3 19.1 19.1 19.0
Charleston 6.5 4.3 8.8 5.1 2.2 7.9
Cherokee 8.6 8.7 8.5 18.0 19.2 17.0
Chester 6.7 6.7 6.7 5.9 7.6 4.4
Chesterfield 1.1 0.0 2.1 10.9 11.9 9.9
Clarendon 3.6 3.3 3.8 14.2 17.7 11.1
Colleton 8.2 7.6 8.8 11.3 11.7 10.9
Darlington -1.4 -2.8 -0.1 9.0 9.6 8.4
Dillon -6.3 -7.9 -5.0 5.5 6.0 5.1
Dorchester 41.4 43.6 39.2 16.1 13.9 18.2
Edgefield 4.8 4.2 5.5 33.9 46.7 21.8
Fairfield 7.7 7.0 8.4 5.2 4.5 5.9
Florence 3.8 3.2 4.3 10.0 9.6 10.3
Georgetown 9.0 7.2 10.8 20.5 21.3 19.8
Greenville 11.2 11.2 11.2 18.6 20.1 17.2
Greenwood 3.0 2.3 3.6 11.3 11.3 11.2
Hampton 0.2 -1.3 1.5 17.6 27.6 8.7
Horry 42.0 42.8 41.3 36.5 36.9 36.1
Jasper 6.8 6.6 7.0 33.5 46.7 21.4
Kershaw 11.7 11.1 12.3 20.8 21.1 20.4
Lancaster 2.2 1.1 3.1 12.5 16.6 8.8
Laurens 11.3 11.0 11.5 19.8 20.8 18.8
Lee -2.6 -4.6 -0.8 9.1 17.7 1.6
Lexington 19.4 18.5 20.3 28.9 28.5 29.2
McCormick 13.7 27.7 0.8 12.3 10.6 14.3
Marion -0.8 -2.7 0.8 4.6 6.4 3.1
Marlboro -7.2 -7.6 -6.8 -1.8 1.8 -5.2
Newberry 6.2 4.8 7.4 8.9 10.1 7.7
Oconee 18.3 18.6 18.0 15.2 15.3 15.0
Orangeburg 3.1 2.6 3.5 8.0 7.7 8.2
Pickens 18.4 17.4 19.4 18.0 18.4 17.5
Richland 5.9 4.7 7.1 12.2 11.4 13.0
Saluda 1.3 1.1 1.4 17.3 19.6 15.1
Spartanburg 12.4 12.9 11.9 11.9 12.9 11.0
Sumter 16.3 19.2 13.6 2.0 -1.3 5.2
Union -1.3 -3.2 0.3 -1.5 -0.2 -2.7
Williamsburg -3.7 -5.0 -2.5 1.1 1.2 1.0
York 23.2 23.6 22.8 25.2 26.2 24.2
South Carolina 11.7 11.2 12.1 15.1 15.4 14.7

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Population and Housing, 1980, 1990, 2000.

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