The population of Durham county is estimated at 307,090. In 2017 there were 4,299 births and 2,046 deaths in Durham county. Durham county has 48,169 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 11,130 that are owned free and clear and 50,049 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Durham County filed 143,240 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.2% of all North Carolina filings and 0.096% of the entire nation. Durham had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,465,552,000 on earned income of $9,295,365,000. Other notable statistics from Durham County were 2,170 unemployment claims which collected a total of $6,879,000 and 42,060 charitable contributions valued at $243,434,000. 42,530 filings from Durham County paid a combined total of $150,883,000 in property taxes and 37,430 filings paid $261,259,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Durham county had 306 religious congregations with an estimated 112,093 members.
47.3% of the Durham population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.3% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Durham County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 6,715 votes.
At $60,045 the median income is 113.7% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 6,746 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Durham, the equivalant of around 4.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.5%.

Top 15 Industries in Durham County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
32,330	Professional, scientific, and technical services
25,680	Health care and social assistance
14,512	Retail trade
14,103	Accommodation and food services
13,102	Scientific research and development services
11,777	Food services and drinking places
11,001	Manufacturing
10,225	Restaurants and other eating places
9,848	Computer systems design and related services
8,645	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
8,508	Wholesale trade
8,275	Administrative and support services
6,659	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
6,361	Finance and insurance
4,926	Custom computer programming services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.22% in Durham County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 27713, 27703, 27712, 27704 and 27705).

In 2018 17.54% of listings in Durham County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 27705, 27707, 27704, 27701 and 27713) dropped their price.

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