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Type of House Heating Fuel Used in Occupied Housing Units in S.C. Counties (2000)


County Total Occupied Housing Units Percent Using:
Utility Gas Bottled, Tank, or LP Gas Electricity Fuel Oil, Kerosene, etc. Coal or Coke Wood Solar Energy Other Fuel No Fuel
Abbeville 10,131 30.5 16.3 42.2 6.7 0.0 3.8 0.1 0.1 0.4
Aiken 55,587 42.0 9.9 45.9 1.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.1 0.2
Allendale 3,915 25.9 15.3 57.0 0.8 0.0 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.3
Anderson 65,649 36.0 7.1 49.9 5.1 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.1 0.3
Bamberg 6,123 20.9 17.9 55.4 2.9 0.0 2.4 0.0 0.1 0.4
Barnwell 9,021 20.3 17.5 58.0 1.4 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.0 0.6
Beaufort 45,532 12.2 7.0 79.3 0.6 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.5
Berkeley 49,922 11.1 6.6 78.7 1.7 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.1 0.6
Calhoun 5,917 5.4 33.1 54.4 3.9 0.0 2.5 0.1 0.3 0.4
Charleston 123,326 28.6 4.6 64.5 1.6 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.1 0.2
Cherokee 20,495 25.5 13.6 47.6 10.4 0.0 2.2 0.1 0.5 0.2
Chester 12,880 44.6 5.3 39.7 7.8 0.0 2.4 0.0 0.0 0.1
Chesterfield 16,557 12.9 14.6 57.8 11.8 0.0 2.1 0.0 0.3 0.5
Clarendon 11,812 2.2 17.6 71.8 6.4 0.0 1.5 0.1 0.1 0.4
Colleton 14,470 14.6 19.3 59.1 3.5 0.0 2.7 0.0 0.2 0.6
Darlington 25,793 9.7 10.6 68.3 9.9 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.2 0.2
Dillon 11,199 10.6 18.2 60.8 8.3 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.4 0.4
Dorchester 34,709 16.7 6.5 74.3 1.3 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.1 0.2
Edgefield 8,270 17.6 21.4 52.4 4.7 0.1 3.3 0.0 0.2 0.4
Fairfield 8,774 19.1 22.8 45.6 8.3 0.0 4.1 0.0 0.0 0.1
Florence 47,147 14.3 9.9 69.4 4.9 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.3 0.3
Georgetown 21,659 8.9 5.9 79.2 4.3 0.0 1.2 0.1 0.2 0.1
Greenville 149,556 39.7 5.0 45.3 8.8 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.1 0.2
Greenwood 25,729 45.0 3.3 46.7 3.5 0.1 1.2 0.0 0.2 0.1
Hampton 7,444 18.4 20.9 56.7 1.5 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.1 0.4
Horry 81,800 3.0 5.2 88.9 1.5 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.1 0.5
Jasper 7,042 1.6 29.0 65.9 1.4 0.0 1.1 0.2 0.0 0.7
Kershaw 20,188 23.2 12.7 55.1 6.2 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.2 0.2
Lancaster 23,178 44.1 7.6 37.0 9.0 0.0 1.8 0.1 0.3 0.1
Laurens 26,290 39.7 4.4 44.6 8.8 0.0 2.1 0.0 0.1 0.3
Lee 6,886 10.2 17.6 56.9 12.1 0.0 2.4 0.2 0.0 0.7
Lexington 83,240 26.4 7.1 63.5 1.8 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.1 0.2
McCormick 3,558 2.0 26.8 56.0 10.6 0.0 3.9 0.1 0.5 0.1
Marion 13,301 14.9 15.2 61.5 6.4 0.1 1.3 0.0 0.2 0.4
Marlboro 10,478 19.1 13.5 54.0 10.5 0.0 2.7 0.0 0.2 0.1
Newberry 14,026 36.3 7.8 45.7 6.1 0.1 3.5
Oconee 27,283 20.6 16.4 53.3 5.3 0.0 4.1 0.0 0.2 0.1
Orangeburg 34,118 18.9 21.5 54.3 2.9 0.0 1.8 0.1 0.1 0.5
Pickens 41,306 32.1 8.7 47.8 8.4 0.0 2.5 0.0 0.2 0.2
Richland 120,101 37.1 3.3 57.8 1.0 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.1 0.3
Saluda 7,127 12.5 28.7 45.4 8.9 0.0 4.3 0.0 0.1 0.1
Spartanburg 97,735 27.0 8.2 51.2 11.8 0.0 1.2 0.1 0.2 0.3
Sumter 37,728 14.0 10.4 67.1 6.7 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.3 0.3
Union 12,087 36.2 10.7 39.8 11.0 0.0 2.2 0.1 0.0 0.1
Williamsburg 13,714 6.4 18.0 61.5 11.1 0.0 2.4 0.0 0.1 0.4
York 61,051 41.3 5.3 45.3 6.6 0.0 1.3 0.0 0.1 0.1
South Carolina 1,533,854 26.2 8.6 58.4 5.1 0.0 1.3 0.0 0.1 0.3

Note: Detail may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census of Population and Housing. Percent calculations by the Office of Research and Statistics.

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