The population of Harnett county is estimated at 130,899. In 2017 there were 1,849 births and 1,023 deaths in Harnett county. Harnett county has 19,582 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,235 that are owned free and clear and 13,777 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Harnett County filed 51,160 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.1% of all North Carolina filings and 0.034% of the entire nation. Harnett had a combined total federal tax liability of $349,210,000 on earned income of $2,490,690,000. Other notable statistics from Harnett County were 930 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,861,000 and 9,620 charitable contributions valued at $49,044,000. 10,920 filings from Harnett County paid a combined total of $24,978,000 in property taxes and 9,960 filings paid $67,137,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Harnett county had 180 religious congregations with an estimated 39,594 members.
20.3% of the Harnett population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 13.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 34% of Harnett County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 2,612 votes.
At $51,406 the median income is 97.4% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 2,705 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Harnett, the equivalant of around 5.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Harnett County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,533	Health care and social assistance
3,037	Retail trade
2,305	Accommodation and food services
2,231	Food services and drinking places
2,070	Restaurants and other eating places
1,566	Manufacturing
1,394	Ambulatory health care services
1,346	Limited-service restaurants
1,085	Transportation and warehousing
1,059	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
980	Administrative and support services
826	Food and beverage stores
714	Nursing and residential care facilities
640	Full-service restaurants
569	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.94% in Harnett County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 28390, 28326, 28334 and 27501).

In 2018 14.25% of listings in Harnett County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 27546, 28326, 28390, 27501 and 28334) dropped their price.

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