The population of Buncombe county is estimated at 255,334. In 2017 there were 2,620 births and 2,639 deaths in Buncombe county. Buncombe county has 42,098 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 23,883 that are owned free and clear and 34,431 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Buncombe County filed 125,940 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.8% of all North Carolina filings and 0.084% of the entire nation. Buncombe had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,156,768,000 on earned income of $7,492,336,000. Other notable statistics from Buncombe County were 1,580 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,702,000 and 30,270 charitable contributions valued at $181,757,000. 31,890 filings from Buncombe County paid a combined total of $98,147,000 in property taxes and 26,280 filings paid $208,761,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Buncombe county had 382 religious congregations with an estimated 122,565 members.
38.5% of the Buncombe population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 9.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 53% of Buncombe County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 8,306 votes.
At $50,271 the median income is 95.2% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 4,778 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Buncombe, the equivalant of around 3.5% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 3.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Buncombe County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
20,510	Health care and social assistance
16,104	Retail trade
14,976	Accommodation and food services
13,805	Manufacturing
11,999	Food services and drinking places
11,317	Restaurants and other eating places
7,365	Ambulatory health care services
6,983	Full-service restaurants
6,517	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
6,139	Administrative and support services
4,336	Professional, scientific, and technical services
4,144	Food and beverage stores
3,985	Grocery stores
3,918	Computer and electronic product manufacturing
3,693	Limited-service restaurants

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.27% in Buncombe County (averaging across 11 zip codes a sample of which are; 28801, 28804, 28805, 28730 and 28806).

In 2018 17.49% of listings in Buncombe County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 28730, 28787, 28805, 28806 and 28748) dropped their price.

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