The population of Ashe county is estimated at 26,754. In 2017 there were 206 births and 335 deaths in Ashe county. Ashe county has 4,638 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,514 that are owned free and clear and 2,603 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Ashe County filed 11,220 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.2% of all North Carolina filings and 0.008% of the entire nation. Ashe had a combined total federal tax liability of $67,123,000 on earned income of $498,815,000. Other notable statistics from Ashe County were 190 unemployment claims which collected a total of $622,000 and 1,960 charitable contributions valued at $11,096,000. 2,100 filings from Ashe County paid a combined total of $4,327,000 in property taxes and 1,720 filings paid $13,036,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Ashe county had 90 religious congregations with an estimated 13,068 members.
19.5% of the Ashe population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Ashe County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 674 votes.
At $40,611 the median income is 76.9% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 531 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ashe, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Ashe County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,136	Health care and social assistance
1,122	Manufacturing
1,020	Retail trade
573	Accommodation and food services
552	Food services and drinking places
552	Restaurants and other eating places
346	Ambulatory health care services
336	Limited-service restaurants
237	Services for the elderly and persons with disabilities
220	Information
214	Wholesale trade
194	Food and beverage stores
190	Finance and insurance
173	Home health care services
156	Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.00% in Ashe County.

In 2018 5.96% of listings in Ashe County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 28694 and 28640) dropped their price.

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