The population of Rowan county is estimated at 139,529. In 2017 there were 1,629 births and 1,582 deaths in Rowan county. Rowan county has 24,421 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,566 that are owned free and clear and 16,153 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Rowan County filed 62,180 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.4% of all North Carolina filings and 0.042% of the entire nation. Rowan had a combined total federal tax liability of $412,032,000 on earned income of $2,955,747,000. Other notable statistics from Rowan County were 1,340 unemployment claims which collected a total of $4,289,000 and 12,840 charitable contributions valued at $71,988,000. 13,210 filings from Rowan County paid a combined total of $30,080,000 in property taxes and 11,090 filings paid $69,329,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Rowan county had 253 religious congregations with an estimated 63,971 members.
18.4% of the Rowan population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Rowan County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,275 votes.
At $47,541 the median income is 90.0% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 3,103 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Rowan, the equivalant of around 4.7% 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 Rowan County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
8,202	Health care and social assistance
7,529	Manufacturing
4,221	Retail trade
3,619	Accommodation and food services
3,460	Food services and drinking places
3,227	Restaurants and other eating places
2,422	Transportation equipment manufacturing
2,376	Transportation and warehousing
1,679	Wholesale trade
1,641	Full-service restaurants
1,531	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,402	Limited-service restaurants
1,341	Administrative and support services
999	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
851	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.41% in Rowan County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 28147, 28146 and 28144).

In 2018 11.30% of listings in Rowan County (averaging across 4 zip codes; 28144, 28147, 28146 and 28023) dropped their price.

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