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Northampton County
16,580Population
-5.1 %Change since 2020
47Net migration
5.0 %Unemployment rate
Facts
- Population
- 16,580 (2024)
- Change since 2020
- -5.1 %
- Net migration
- 47 (2023)
- Unemployment rate
- 5.0 % (2025)
- State
- North Carolina
- Population base, April 2020
- 17,474 (2020)
- Births
- 161 (2023)
- Births per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 9.7
- Deaths
- 304 (2023)
- Deaths per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 18.3
- Natural change, 2023
- -143
- International migration
- 5 (2023)
- Domestic migration
- 42 (2023)
- Net migration per 1,000, 2023
- 2.8
- Postal code
- NC
- FIPS code
- 37131
Sources: US Census Bureau — Population Estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics — LAUS
Unemployment rate, annual average
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.0 % |
| 2024 | 4.5 % |
| 2023 | 4.7 % |
| 2022 | 4.9 % |
| 2021 | 6.4 % |
| 2020 | 7.5 % |
| 2019 | 5.2 % |
| 2018 | 5.4 % |
| 2017 | 6.5 % |
| 2016 | 7.6 % |
| 2015 | 7.5 % |
| 2014 | 7.8 % |
Population estimates, 2020–2024
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 16,580 |
| 2023 | 16,705 |
| 2022 | 16,806 |
| 2021 | 17,125 |
| 2020 | 17,439 |