The population of Pitt county is estimated at 177,627. In 2017 there were 2,097 births and 1,301 deaths in Pitt county. Pitt county has 27,068 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 9,836 that are owned free and clear and 30,673 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Pitt County filed 71,820 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.6% of all North Carolina filings and 0.048% of the entire nation. Pitt had a combined total federal tax liability of $590,252,000 on earned income of $3,844,849,000. Other notable statistics from Pitt County were 1,470 unemployment claims which collected a total of $3,256,000 and 16,100 charitable contributions valued at $106,645,000. 16,340 filings from Pitt County paid a combined total of $42,963,000 in property taxes and 14,460 filings paid $95,522,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Pitt county had 248 religious congregations with an estimated 69,469 members.
30.9% of the Pitt population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Pitt County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,450 votes.
At $46,229 the median income is 87.6% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 4,405 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Pitt, the equivalant of around 4.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Pitt County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
16,075	Health care and social assistance
8,597	Retail trade
8,055	Accommodation and food services
7,564	Food services and drinking places
6,776	Restaurants and other eating places
5,157	Ambulatory health care services
4,905	Manufacturing
3,702	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,622	Administrative and support services
3,213	Full-service restaurants
3,112	Limited-service restaurants
2,026	Finance and insurance
1,938	Offices of physicians
1,900	Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists)
1,893	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.01% in Pitt County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 28590, 27834 and 27858).

In 2018 10.80% of listings in Pitt County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 27858, 27834 and 28590) dropped their price.

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