Wake County is the wealthiest county in North Carolina. Raleigh is the largest city located within this county.
  The population of Wake county is estimated at 1,049,143 where 720,422 speak English exclusively and 12,487 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 13,048 births and 5,662 deaths in Wake county. Wake county has 187,849 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 37,305 that are owned free and clear and 120,491 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Wake County filed 490,660 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 10.9% of all North Carolina filings and 0.329% of the entire nation. Wake had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $6,752,997,000 on earned income of $41,316,026,000. Other notable statistics from Wake County were 8,680 unemployment claims which collected a total of $27,904,000 and 168,940 charitable contributions valued at $1,136,290,000. 178,410 filings from Wake County paid a combined total of $629,352,000 in property taxes and 161,820 filings paid $1,360,747,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Wake county had 712 religious congregations with an estimated 418,188 members.
51.0% of the Wake population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Wake County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 15,865 votes.
At $77,641 the median income is 147.1% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 22,450 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Wake, the equivalant of around 3.9% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Wake County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
51,026	Retail trade
47,097	Health care and social assistance
42,326	Accommodation and food services
40,850	Professional, scientific, and technical services
40,630	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
39,769	Administrative and support services
38,485	Food services and drinking places
36,491	Restaurants and other eating places
25,332	Information
20,742	Ambulatory health care services
20,372	Finance and insurance
19,076	Employment services
18,773	Full-service restaurants
18,108	Wholesale trade
15,300	Temporary help services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.73% in Wake County (averaging across 29 zip codes a sample of which are; 27610, 27539, 27502, 27545 and 27607).

In 2018 18.35% of listings in Wake County (averaging across 29 zip codes a sample of which are; 27616, 27617, 27518, 27529 and 27519) dropped their price.

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