The population of Rutherford county is estimated at 66,305. In 2017 there were 660 births and 833 deaths in Rutherford county. Rutherford county has 11,263 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 8,506 that are owned free and clear and 7,697 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Rutherford County filed 26,060 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.6% of all North Carolina filings and 0.017% of the entire nation. Rutherford had a combined total federal tax liability of $155,095,000 on earned income of $1,124,625,000. Other notable statistics from Rutherford County were 610 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,490,000 and 4,270 charitable contributions valued at $26,017,000. 4,500 filings from Rutherford County paid a combined total of $9,800,000 in property taxes and 3,720 filings paid $23,149,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Rutherford county had 194 religious congregations with an estimated 50,341 members.
17.3% of the Rutherford population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 18.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Rutherford County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,391 votes.
At $40,758 the median income is 77.2% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 1,514 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Rutherford, the equivalant of around 6.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 6.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Rutherford County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,951	Health care and social assistance
2,639	Manufacturing
2,511	Retail trade
1,590	Accommodation and food services
1,409	Food services and drinking places
1,383	Restaurants and other eating places
967	Ambulatory health care services
887	Nursing and residential care facilities
701	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
697	Full-service restaurants
627	General merchandise stores
620	Administrative and support services
602	Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities)
589	Limited-service restaurants
572	Fabricated metal product manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.42% in Rutherford County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 28139, 28746 and 28043).

In 2018 12.55% of listings in Rutherford County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 28756, 28018, 28746, 28043 and 28139) dropped their price.

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