The population of Johnston county is estimated at 191,094. In 2017 there were 2,366 births and 1,503 deaths in Johnston county. Johnston county has 34,588 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 10,730 that are owned free and clear and 16,591 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Johnston County filed 84,460 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.9% of all North Carolina filings and 0.057% of the entire nation. Johnston had a combined total federal tax liability of $625,860,000 on earned income of $4,667,580,000. Other notable statistics from Johnston County were 1,450 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,489,000 and 21,280 charitable contributions valued at $93,721,000. 23,860 filings from Johnston County paid a combined total of $54,469,000 in property taxes and 22,090 filings paid $151,159,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Johnston county had 259 religious congregations with an estimated 61,554 members.
21.7% of the Johnston population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 14.4% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Johnston County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 8,532 votes.
At $58,647 the median income is 111.1% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 3,922 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Johnston, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Johnston County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
7,446	Retail trade
6,399	Manufacturing
5,165	Health care and social assistance
4,949	Accommodation and food services
4,563	Food services and drinking places
4,344	Restaurants and other eating places
2,316	Chemical manufacturing
2,277	Limited-service restaurants
2,273	Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing
2,009	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,944	Administrative and support services
1,924	Ambulatory health care services
1,807	Full-service restaurants
1,276	Machinery manufacturing
1,238	Food and beverage stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.00% in Johnston County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 27504, 27577, 27520 and 27527).

In 2018 15.01% of listings in Johnston County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 27576, 27504, 27577, 27527 and 27524) dropped their price.

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