The population of Union county is estimated at 226,540. In 2017 there were 2,400 births and 1,402 deaths in Union county. Union county has 44,484 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 10,666 that are owned free and clear and 12,714 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Union County filed 97,460 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.2% of all North Carolina filings and 0.065% of the entire nation. Union had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,295,364,000 on earned income of $8,034,650,000. Other notable statistics from Union County were 1,580 unemployment claims which collected a total of $5,152,000 and 35,000 charitable contributions valued at $189,200,000. 36,980 filings from Union County paid a combined total of $122,488,000 in property taxes and 34,220 filings paid $305,423,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Union county had 241 religious congregations with an estimated 94,121 members.
34.0% of the Union population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Union County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 10,207 votes.
At $77,875 the median income is 147.5% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 4,777 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Union, the equivalant of around 4.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.4%.

Top 15 Industries in Union County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,760	Manufacturing
6,803	Retail trade
5,038	Health care and social assistance
4,159	Accommodation and food services
3,977	Food services and drinking places
3,769	Restaurants and other eating places
2,748	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,658	Wholesale trade
2,572	Administrative and support services
2,435	Food manufacturing
2,291	Animal slaughtering and processing
2,110	Limited-service restaurants
1,992	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
1,718	Ambulatory health care services
1,613	General merchandise stores

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.98% in Union County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 28110, 28104, 28112, 28173 and 28079).

In 2018 14.68% of listings in Union County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 28112, 28110, 28079, 28104 and 28173) dropped their price.

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