The population of Lee county is estimated at 59,746. In 2017 there were 758 births and 532 deaths in Lee county. Lee county has 9,895 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 4,779 that are owned free and clear and 7,384 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lee County filed 26,470 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.6% of all North Carolina filings and 0.018% of the entire nation. Lee had a combined total federal tax liability of $184,265,000 on earned income of $1,304,250,000. Other notable statistics from Lee County were 460 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,500,000 and 5,510 charitable contributions valued at $28,711,000. 5,950 filings from Lee County paid a combined total of $16,819,000 in property taxes and 5,050 filings paid $31,644,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lee county had 126 religious congregations with an estimated 30,170 members.
21.2% of the Lee population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 18.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 41% of Lee County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 876 votes.
At $53,297 the median income is 100.9% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 1,372 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lee, the equivalant of around 5.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Lee County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,039	Manufacturing
3,021	Retail trade
2,732	Health care and social assistance
1,816	Accommodation and food services
1,703	Food services and drinking places
1,437	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,430	Administrative and support services
1,405	Machinery manufacturing
1,211	Ambulatory health care services
1,156	Employment services
950	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
855	Limited-service restaurants
719	Full-service restaurants
687	Other general purpose machinery manufacturing
681	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.11% in Lee County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 27332 and 27330).

In 2018 10.42% of listings in Lee County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 27330 and 27332) dropped their price.

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