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Cherokee County
57,770Population
2.7 %Change since 2020
861Net migration
5.8 %Unemployment rate
Facts
- Population
- 57,770 (2024)
- Change since 2020
- 2.7 %
- Net migration
- 861 (2023)
- Unemployment rate
- 5.8 % (2025)
- State
- South Carolina
- Population base, April 2020
- 56,226 (2020)
- Births
- 612 (2023)
- Births per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 10.6
- Deaths
- 725 (2023)
- Deaths per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 12.5
- Natural change, 2023
- -113
- International migration
- 133 (2023)
- Domestic migration
- 728 (2023)
- Net migration per 1,000, 2023
- 14.9
- Postal code
- SC
- FIPS code
- 45021
Sources: US Census Bureau — Population Estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics — LAUS
Unemployment rate, annual average
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.8 % |
| 2024 | 5.6 % |
| 2023 | 4.1 % |
| 2022 | 4.1 % |
| 2021 | 5.0 % |
| 2020 | 8.0 % |
| 2019 | 3.0 % |
| 2018 | 3.6 % |
| 2017 | 4.9 % |
| 2016 | 6.0 % |
| 2015 | 7.1 % |
| 2014 | 8.1 % |
Population estimates, 2020–2024
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 57,770 |
| 2023 | 56,943 |
| 2022 | 56,186 |
| 2021 | 56,110 |
| 2020 | 56,226 |