The population of Scotland county is estimated at 35,250. In 2017 there were 438 births and 419 deaths in Scotland county. Scotland county has 5,252 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,426 that are owned free and clear and 4,936 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Scotland County filed 13,430 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.3% of all North Carolina filings and 0.009% of the entire nation. Scotland had a combined total federal tax liability of $75,570,000 on earned income of $526,803,000. Other notable statistics from Scotland County were 330 unemployment claims which collected a total of $624,000 and 2,680 charitable contributions valued at $16,845,000. 2,390 filings from Scotland County paid a combined total of $5,761,000 in property taxes and 1,920 filings paid $9,729,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Scotland county had 85 religious congregations with an estimated 14,481 members.
15.9% of the Scotland population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 21.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 39% of Scotland County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 277 votes.
At $37,947 the median income is 71.9% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 904 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Scotland, the equivalant of around 7.8% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 9.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Scotland County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,358	Health care and social assistance
1,662	Manufacturing
1,461	Retail trade
992	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
923	Accommodation and food services
869	Temporary help services
869	Employment services
801	Food services and drinking places
759	Restaurants and other eating places
634	Ambulatory health care services
458	Limited-service restaurants
438	General merchandise stores
424	Motor vehicle transmission and power train parts manufacturing
311	Wholesale trade
305	Offices of physicians

In 2018 9.48% of listings in Scotland County.

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