The population of Surry county is estimated at 72,049. In 2017 there were 731 births and 875 deaths in Surry county. Surry county has 12,623 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 9,123 that are owned free and clear and 8,168 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Surry County filed 30,360 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.7% of all North Carolina filings and 0.020% of the entire nation. Surry had a combined total federal tax liability of $198,089,000 on earned income of $1,400,714,000. Other notable statistics from Surry County were 590 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,288,000 and 4,980 charitable contributions valued at $29,170,000. 5,220 filings from Surry County paid a combined total of $10,700,000 in property taxes and 4,210 filings paid $25,573,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Surry county had 178 religious congregations with an estimated 39,434 members.
16.5% of the Surry population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 21.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Surry County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 2,567 votes.
At $43,023 the median income is 81.5% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 1,434 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Surry, the equivalant of around 4.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Surry County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
5,086	Health care and social assistance
3,903	Retail trade
3,511	Manufacturing
2,403	Accommodation and food services
2,317	Ambulatory health care services
2,303	Food services and drinking places
2,242	Restaurants and other eating places
1,258	Limited-service restaurants
1,148	Transportation and warehousing
1,083	Truck transportation
1,033	General merchandise stores
973	Offices of other health practitioners
818	General freight trucking
732	Wholesale trade
722	General freight trucking, long-distance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.33% in Surry County.

In 2018 14.98% of listings in Surry County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 27030) dropped their price.

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