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Lee County
68,537Population
8.3 %Change since 2020
1,627Net migration
3.8 %Unemployment rate
Facts
- Population
- 68,537 (2024)
- Change since 2020
- 8.3 %
- Net migration
- 1,627 (2023)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.8 % (2025)
- State
- North Carolina
- Population base, April 2020
- 63,286 (2020)
- Births
- 798 (2023)
- Births per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 11.6
- Deaths
- 726 (2023)
- Deaths per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 10.6
- Natural change, 2023
- 72
- International migration
- 434 (2023)
- Domestic migration
- 1,193 (2023)
- Net migration per 1,000, 2023
- 23.7
- Postal code
- NC
- FIPS code
- 37105
Sources: US Census Bureau — Population Estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics — LAUS
Unemployment rate, annual average
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.8 % |
| 2024 | 3.5 % |
| 2023 | 3.6 % |
| 2022 | 3.9 % |
| 2021 | 4.9 % |
| 2020 | 7.3 % |
| 2019 | 4.1 % |
| 2018 | 4.1 % |
| 2017 | 4.8 % |
| 2016 | 5.5 % |
| 2015 | 7.1 % |
| 2014 | 7.9 % |
Population estimates, 2020–2024
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 68,537 |
| 2023 | 67,421 |
| 2022 | 65,687 |
| 2021 | 64,031 |
| 2020 | 63,402 |