The population of Wayne county is estimated at 124,476. In 2017 there were 1,605 births and 1,316 deaths in Wayne county. Wayne county has 19,525 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 10,303 that are owned free and clear and 18,003 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Wayne County filed 51,490 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.1% of all North Carolina filings and 0.035% of the entire nation. Wayne had a combined total federal tax liability of $382,119,000 on earned income of $2,492,696,000. Other notable statistics from Wayne County were 1,090 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,182,000 and 8,560 charitable contributions valued at $53,398,000. 8,550 filings from Wayne County paid a combined total of $18,275,000 in property taxes and 7,260 filings paid $43,630,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Wayne county had 267 religious congregations with an estimated 49,647 members.
19.7% of the Wayne population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 16.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 40% of Wayne County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 1,164 votes.
At $44,592 the median income is 84.5% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 2,736 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Wayne, the equivalant of around 5.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Wayne County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
6,896	Health care and social assistance
5,833	Manufacturing
5,709	Retail trade
3,284	Accommodation and food services
3,023	Restaurants and other eating places
2,909	Food manufacturing
2,044	Ambulatory health care services
1,822	Wholesale trade
1,662	General merchandise stores
1,612	Limited-service restaurants
1,427	Animal slaughtering and processing
1,395	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
1,377	Administrative and support services
1,206	Full-service restaurants
1,099	Finance and insurance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.71% in Wayne County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 27534 and 27530).

In 2018 13.02% of listings in Wayne County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 27534 and 27530) dropped their price.

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