The population of Mecklenburg county is estimated at 1,057,237 where 718,070 speak English exclusively and 8,711 speak primarily in another language. In 2017 there were 14,983 births and 6,411 deaths in Mecklenburg county. Mecklenburg county has 184,971 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 34,617 that are owned free and clear and 142,625 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Mecklenburg County filed 500,480 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 11.1% of all North Carolina filings and 0.336% of the entire nation. Mecklenburg had an incredible combined total federal tax liability of $7,412,800,000 on earned income of $40,045,274,000. Other notable statistics from Mecklenburg County were 10,350 unemployment claims which collected a total of $33,740,000 and 156,700 charitable contributions valued at $1,093,073,000. 152,790 filings from Mecklenburg County paid a combined total of $610,742,000 in property taxes and 139,320 filings paid $1,140,291,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Mecklenburg county had 847 religious congregations with an estimated 477,366 members.
44.1% of the Mecklenburg population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 10.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 44% of Mecklenburg County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 16,772 votes.
At $65,750 the median income is 124.5% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 25,930 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Mecklenburg, the equivalant of around 4.3% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Mecklenburg County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
68,570	Finance and insurance
65,054	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
64,133	Administrative and support services
61,634	Health care and social assistance
52,469	Retail trade
49,178	Accommodation and food services
47,897	Professional, scientific, and technical services
43,974	Credit intermediation and related activities
42,775	Food services and drinking places
37,289	Depository credit intermediation
36,850	Restaurants and other eating places
36,761	Commercial banking
36,470	Employment services
33,885	National commercial banks (banking)
32,084	Transportation and warehousing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.19% in Mecklenburg County (averaging across 25 zip codes a sample of which are; 28209, 28036, 28273, 28105 and 28202).

In 2018 16.95% of listings in Mecklenburg County (averaging across 27 zip codes a sample of which are; 28269, 28216, 28262, 28134 and 28207) dropped their price.

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