The population of Columbus county is estimated at 56,335. In 2017 there were 591 births and 724 deaths in Columbus county. Columbus county has 8,247 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 7,738 that are owned free and clear and 6,504 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Columbus County filed 21,540 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.5% of all North Carolina filings and 0.014% of the entire nation. Columbus had a combined total federal tax liability of $126,071,000 on earned income of $872,081,000. Other notable statistics from Columbus County were 610 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,709,000 and 3,670 charitable contributions valued at $20,622,000. 3,610 filings from Columbus County paid a combined total of $8,596,000 in property taxes and 2,820 filings paid $15,417,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Columbus county had 179 religious congregations with an estimated 33,660 members.
12.5% of the Columbus population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 19.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Columbus County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 545 votes.
At $37,639 the median income is 71.3% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 1,245 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Columbus, the equivalant of around 5.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Columbus County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,353	Health care and social assistance
2,125	Retail trade
1,943	Manufacturing
1,492	Ambulatory health care services
1,005	Accommodation and food services
900	Restaurants and other eating places
740	Finance and insurance
674	Credit intermediation and related activities
667	Home health care services
631	Limited-service restaurants
542	Commercial banking
507	General merchandise stores
451	Food and beverage stores
417	Grocery stores
398	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services

In 2018 7.95% of listings in Columbus County.

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