The population of Catawba county is estimated at 156,647. In 2017 there were 1,707 births and 1,637 deaths in Catawba county. Catawba county has 29,180 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 13,677 that are owned free and clear and 18,030 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Catawba County filed 72,680 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.6% of all North Carolina filings and 0.049% of the entire nation. Catawba had a combined total federal tax liability of $647,821,000 on earned income of $4,141,274,000. Other notable statistics from Catawba County were 1,150 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,270,000 and 15,570 charitable contributions valued at $101,926,000. 16,530 filings from Catawba County paid a combined total of $43,121,000 in property taxes and 13,970 filings paid $96,708,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Catawba county had 281 religious congregations with an estimated 93,104 members.
21.5% of the Catawba population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 16.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Catawba County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,963 votes.
At $53,348 the median income is 101.0% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 3,302 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Catawba, 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 4.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Catawba County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
20,830	Manufacturing
11,445	Health care and social assistance
9,502	Retail trade
8,260	Furniture and related product manufacturing
7,512	Household and institutional furniture and kitchen cabinet manufacturing
7,492	Household and institutional furniture manufacturing
6,773	Upholstered household furniture manufacturing
6,737	Accommodation and food services
6,273	Food services and drinking places
5,979	Restaurants and other eating places
5,320	Wholesale trade
4,545	Ambulatory health care services
4,077	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,902	Transportation and warehousing
3,314	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.60% in Catawba County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 28602, 28601, 28673 and 28658).

In 2018 10.81% of listings in Catawba County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 28658, 28602, 28613, 28601 and 28609) dropped their price.

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