The population of Cleveland county is estimated at 97,102. In 2017 there were 1,057 births and 1,211 deaths in Cleveland county. Cleveland county has 16,570 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 9,930 that are owned free and clear and 12,055 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Cleveland County filed 41,720 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.9% of all North Carolina filings and 0.028% of the entire nation. Cleveland had a combined total federal tax liability of $252,484,000 on earned income of $1,873,744,000. Other notable statistics from Cleveland County were 940 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,284,000 and 7,740 charitable contributions valued at $46,723,000. 7,990 filings from Cleveland County paid a combined total of $16,882,000 in property taxes and 6,610 filings paid $38,939,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Cleveland county had 237 religious congregations with an estimated 60,451 members.
16.5% of the Cleveland population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 16.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Cleveland County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,595 votes.
At $39,911 the median income is 75.6% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 2,242 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Cleveland, the equivalant of around 4.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Cleveland County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
5,325	Manufacturing
5,245	Health care and social assistance
3,656	Retail trade
2,262	Accommodation and food services
2,163	Food services and drinking places
2,051	Restaurants and other eating places
1,591	Transportation and warehousing
1,223	Wholesale trade
1,170	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
969	Limited-service restaurants
967	Transportation equipment manufacturing
967	Full-service restaurants
876	Nursing and residential care facilities
854	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
804	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.24% in Cleveland County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 28150 and 28086).

In 2018 8.32% of listings in Cleveland County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 28152, 28150 and 28086) dropped their price.

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