The population of Gaston county is estimated at 216,903. In 2017 there were 2,561 births and 2,291 deaths in Gaston county. Gaston county has 38,181 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 15,692 that are owned free and clear and 25,994 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Gaston County filed 97,100 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.2% of all North Carolina filings and 0.065% of the entire nation. Gaston had a combined total federal tax liability of $720,234,000 on earned income of $5,011,242,000. Other notable statistics from Gaston County were 2,110 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,818,000 and 22,210 charitable contributions valued at $120,345,000. 23,300 filings from Gaston County paid a combined total of $63,146,000 in property taxes and 20,620 filings paid $130,431,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Gaston county had 393 religious congregations with an estimated 117,714 members.
20.5% of the Gaston population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Gaston County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 5,234 votes.
At $50,016 the median income is 94.7% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 5,021 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Gaston, the equivalant of around 4.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Gaston County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
12,709	Manufacturing
11,455	Health care and social assistance
9,035	Retail trade
6,015	Accommodation and food services
5,757	Food services and drinking places
5,585	Restaurants and other eating places
4,380	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
4,249	Ambulatory health care services
4,200	Administrative and support services
3,086	Employment services
2,976	Limited-service restaurants
2,762	Temporary help services
2,756	Wholesale trade
2,555	Textile mills
2,275	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.07% in Gaston County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 28052, 28120, 28056 and 28054).

In 2018 14.30% of listings in Gaston County (averaging across 8 zip codes a sample of which are; 28054, 28120, 28052, 28012 and 28056) dropped their price.

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