The population of Forsyth county is estimated at 371,614. In 2017 there were 4,403 births and 3,234 deaths in Forsyth county. Forsyth county has 66,326 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 23,862 that are owned free and clear and 50,975 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Forsyth County filed 169,560 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.8% of all North Carolina filings and 0.114% of the entire nation. Forsyth had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $1,744,540,000 on earned income of $10,616,960,000. Other notable statistics from Forsyth County were 2,630 unemployment claims which collected a total of $7,561,000 and 44,600 charitable contributions valued at $314,884,000. 45,530 filings from Forsyth County paid a combined total of $135,681,000 in property taxes and 38,640 filings paid $258,551,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Forsyth county had 437 religious congregations with an estimated 189,864 members.
33.8% of the Forsyth population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Forsyth County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 177 votes.
At $50,803 the median income is 96.2% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 8,159 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Forsyth, the equivalant of around 4.4% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Forsyth County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
22,194	Health care and social assistance
19,642	Retail trade
14,604	Accommodation and food services
14,325	Manufacturing
13,288	Food services and drinking places
12,356	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
12,164	Administrative and support services
12,089	Restaurants and other eating places
10,464	Finance and insurance
8,179	Ambulatory health care services
6,827	Employment services
6,669	Professional, scientific, and technical services
6,383	Temporary help services
6,239	Full-service restaurants
6,070	Wholesale trade

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.41% in Forsyth County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 27045, 27101, 27106, 27127 and 27284).

In 2018 13.70% of listings in Forsyth County (averaging across 12 zip codes a sample of which are; 27103, 27107, 27104, 27127 and 27023) dropped their price.

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