The population of Onslow county is estimated at 192,199. In 2017 there were 3,939 births and 1,118 deaths in Onslow county. Onslow county has 25,865 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,467 that are owned free and clear and 25,760 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Onslow County filed 78,650 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.7% of all North Carolina filings and 0.053% of the entire nation. Onslow had a combined total federal tax liability of $461,792,000 on earned income of $3,434,337,000. Other notable statistics from Onslow County were 1,260 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,185,000 and 10,320 charitable contributions valued at $49,337,000. 11,950 filings from Onslow County paid a combined total of $27,177,000 in property taxes and 10,920 filings paid $78,094,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Onslow county had 158 religious congregations with an estimated 51,397 members.
20.2% of the Onslow population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 29% of Onslow County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 5,011 votes.
At $49,634 the median income is 94.0% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 3,259 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Onslow, 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 5.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Onslow County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
7,716	Retail trade
6,640	Accommodation and food services
6,174	Food services and drinking places
5,765	Health care and social assistance
5,640	Restaurants and other eating places
2,972	Limited-service restaurants
2,314	Full-service restaurants
2,216	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,077	Administrative and support services
1,769	Ambulatory health care services
1,748	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,701	General merchandise stores
1,625	Social assistance
1,480	Motor vehicle and parts dealers
1,172	Other services (except public administration)

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.62% in Onslow County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 28574, 28546, 28584 and 28539).

In 2018 7.67% of listings in Onslow County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 28539, 28574 and 28546) dropped their price.

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