North Carolina growth by county: new homes, population, income, jobs and home prices
One row per North Carolina county: new housing units permitted each year 2019-2025 and so far this year (Census Building Permits Survey), population 2020 and 2025 (Census Population Estimates), median household income (ACS 2020-2024), jobs and average weekly wage (BLS QCEW) and the FHFA house price index change. Compiled from public-domain federal files.
100 rows, data as of Oct 27, 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
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Groundwork (groundworkmap.com), “North Carolina growth by county: new homes, population, income, jobs and home prices”, https://groundworkmap.com/data/north-carolina-growth, data as of 2026-10-27.
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Changes
- 2026-10-27: first edition. Census BPS monthly files through 2026-09 (posted 2026-10-27); Population Estimates Vintage 2025; ACS 2020-2024; QCEW 2020-2025 annual averages; FHFA HPI 2025.
Columns
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
county | County name (Census) |
county_fips | Five-digit county FIPS code |
page_url | The Groundwork page that prints the row (blank where the county has no page) |
new_homes_2019 | New housing units authorized by building permits in 2019, Census BPS annual file (reported plus imputed) |
new_homes_2020 | New housing units authorized by building permits in 2020, Census BPS annual file (reported plus imputed) |
new_homes_2021 | New housing units authorized by building permits in 2021, Census BPS annual file (reported plus imputed) |
new_homes_2022 | New housing units authorized by building permits in 2022, Census BPS annual file (reported plus imputed) |
new_homes_2023 | New housing units authorized by building permits in 2023, Census BPS annual file (reported plus imputed) |
new_homes_2024 | New housing units authorized by building permits in 2024, Census BPS annual file (reported plus imputed) |
new_homes_2025 | New housing units authorized by building permits in 2025, Census BPS annual file (reported plus imputed) |
new_homes_single_family_latest | Of the latest year's units, those in 1-unit buildings |
new_homes_ytd | Units authorized January to ytd_month of ytd_year (Census BPS year-to-date file) |
new_homes_ytd_prior | The same months a year earlier |
ytd_year | Year of new_homes_ytd |
ytd_month | Last month (1-12) of new_homes_ytd |
population_2020 | Resident population, July 1, 2020 (Census Population Estimates, Vintage 2025) |
population_2025 | Resident population, July 1, 2025 (same file) |
population_change_pct | Change from 2020 to 2025, percent (one decimal) |
new_homes_per_1000 | Latest year's new homes per 1,000 residents of the same year (one decimal) |
median_household_income | Median household income, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, 2024 dollars (blank above a 30% CV) |
jobs_2025 | Annual average employment, all industries, place of work, BLS QCEW 2025 |
jobs_2020 | The same, 2020 |
avg_weekly_wage_2025 | Average weekly wage, all industries, BLS QCEW 2025 (USD) |
home_price_change_1y_pct | FHFA all-transactions House Price Index, one-year change to the index year, from the index values (one decimal; FHFA's own annual-change column can differ by 0.1) |
home_price_change_5y_pct | The same, five-year change |
edition | The table's data edition (YYYY-MM-DD: the Census posting day of the newest BPS month) |
Method
Figures copied from the agencies' public files as published; per-1,000 and percent changes are computed here from those figures and rounded to one decimal. A blank cell: the agency publishes no figure for the county (no permit office reporting to the Census, a BLS disclosure suppression, an ACS estimate above a 30% coefficient of variation, or no FHFA county index). Monthly figures are not in this table: a year is the Census annual file, which adds late and corrected reports.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey; U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025; U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; FHFA House Price Index (all-transactions), annual county and five-digit ZIP indexes. Public domain.
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Free to copy, share and adapt, including commercially, under CC BY 4.0: credit "Groundwork (groundworkmap.com)" and link the row's page_url or this file. The license covers these files only; the rest of the site stays under https://groundworkmap.com/terms. The figures are the sources' own (named in each column); aggregates for a county, not an appraisal of any parcel.