The population of Edgecombe county is estimated at 53,293. In 2017 there were 591 births and 648 deaths in Edgecombe county. Edgecombe county has 8,464 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,013 that are owned free and clear and 8,203 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Edgecombe County filed 21,910 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.5% of all North Carolina filings and 0.015% of the entire nation. Edgecombe had a combined total federal tax liability of $118,285,000 on earned income of $829,137,000. Other notable statistics from Edgecombe County were 770 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,483,000 and 3,220 charitable contributions valued at $19,414,000. 3,070 filings from Edgecombe County paid a combined total of $6,625,000 in property taxes and 2,490 filings paid $12,664,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Edgecombe county had 129 religious congregations with an estimated 22,652 members.
11.6% of the Edgecombe population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 21.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Edgecombe County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 2,173 votes.
At $35,130 the median income is 66.5% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 1,723 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Edgecombe, the equivalant of around 7.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 8.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Edgecombe County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,000	Manufacturing
2,502	Health care and social assistance
1,481	Transportation and warehousing
1,416	Retail trade
766	Accommodation and food services
754	Food services and drinking places
719	Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing
704	Restaurants and other eating places
580	Ambulatory health care services
510	Limited-service restaurants
359	Wholesale trade
340	Food and beverage stores
337	Other general merchandise stores
337	General merchandise stores
318	Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods

In 2018 the average price reduction was 5.15% in Edgecombe County.

In 2018 13.58% of listings in Edgecombe County.

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