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County · North Carolina
Buncombe County
279,210Population
3.6 %Change since 2020
3,145Net migration
4.8 %Unemployment rate
Facts
- Population
- 279,210 (2024)
- Change since 2020
- 3.6 %
- Net migration
- 3,145 (2023)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.8 % (2025)
- State
- North Carolina
- Population base, April 2020
- 269,425 (2020)
- Births
- 2,402 (2023)
- Births per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 8.6
- Deaths
- 2,905 (2023)
- Deaths per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 10.4
- Natural change, 2023
- -503
- International migration
- 1,036 (2023)
- Domestic migration
- 2,109 (2023)
- Net migration per 1,000, 2023
- 11.3
- Postal code
- NC
- FIPS code
- 37021
Sources: US Census Bureau — Population Estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics — LAUS
Unemployment rate, annual average
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.8 % |
| 2024 | 4.4 % |
| 2023 | 2.9 % |
| 2022 | 3.1 % |
| 2021 | 4.4 % |
| 2020 | 8.5 % |
| 2019 | 3.1 % |
| 2018 | 3.2 % |
| 2017 | 3.6 % |
| 2016 | 4.0 % |
| 2015 | 4.3 % |
| 2014 | 4.6 % |
Population estimates, 2020–2024
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 279,210 |
| 2023 | 276,789 |
| 2022 | 274,112 |
| 2021 | 271,984 |
| 2020 | 269,704 |