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AROUND THE STATE FOR SOURCES AND NOTES, SEE PAGE 74 Cabarrus Population (000s) Employment (000s) Unemployment rate Per capita income (000s) Caldwell 2002 139.8 70.4 5.5% $30.6 2012* 187.1 83.8 8.8% $35.6 Population (000s) Employment (000s) Unemployment rate Per capita income (000s) Camden 2002 78.8 36.3 8.9% $25.1 2012* 84.4 33.9 11.4% $27.3 Population (000s) Employment (000s) Unemployment rate Per capita income (000s) 2002 7.3 3.4 3.4% $26.4 2012* 10.2 4.2 7.8% $37.4 EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY Retail: 17.0% Health care: 14.9% EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY Manufacturing: 23.7% Health care: 13.4% EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY Education: 37.8% Administrative: 10.1% LARGEST PRIVATE-SECTOR EMPLOYER Carolinas Medical Center LARGEST PRIVATE-SECTOR EMPLOYER Merchants Distributors Inc. LARGEST PRIVATE-SECTOR EMPLOYER Academi LARGEST CITY/TOWN Concord: population 81,350 LARGEST CITY/TOWN Lenoir: population 17,905 LARGEST CITY/TOWN South Mills, unincorporated COUNTY PROPERTY TAX 70.0 cents per $100 value COUNTY PROPERTY TAX 60.0 cents per $100 value COUNTY PROPERTY TAX 59.0 cents per $100 value HIGHER EDUCATION Barber-Scotia College Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Cabarrus College of Health Sciences HIGHER EDUCATION Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute HIGHER EDUCATION College of the Albemarle FOR MORE INFORMATION Cabarrus Economic Development 980-224-2210 www.cabarrusedc.com FOR MORE INFORMATION Economic Development Commission of Caldwell County, 828-728-0768 www.caldwelledc.org FOR MORE INFORMATION Camden County Economic Development 252-338-1919, ext. 233 www.camdencountync.gov Carteret Population (000s) Employment (000s) Unemployment rate Per capita income (000s) Caswell 2002 60.1 27.2 5.8% $28.2 2012* 68.7 30.6 8.6% $39.2 Population (000s) Employment (000s) Unemployment rate Per capita income (000s) Catawba 2002 23.7 11.7 7.3% $22.4 2012* 23.8 9.8 9.7% $31.3 Population (000s) Employment (000s) Unemployment rate Per capita income (000s) 2002 145.4 71.1 9.4% $27.4 2012* 156.9 65.5 11% $33.3 EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY Retail: 18.5% Accommodations: 16.6% EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY Government: 23.0% Education: 19.0% EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY Manufacturing: 26.5% Health care: 12.1% LARGEST PRIVATE-SECTOR EMPLOYER Carteret General Hospital LARGEST PRIVATE-SECTOR EMPLOYER SSC Yanceyville LARGEST PRIVATE-SECTOR EMPLOYER Catawba Valley Medical Center LARGEST CITY/TOWN Morehead City: population 9,163 LARGEST CITY/TOWN Yanceyville: population 1,994 LARGEST CITY/TOWN Hickory: population 40,039 COUNTY PROPERTY TAX 29.0 cents per $100 value COUNTY PROPERTY TAX 65.9 cents per $100 value COUNTY PROPERTY TAX 53.0 cents per $100 value HIGHER EDUCATION Carteret Community College HIGHER EDUCATION Piedmont Community College HIGHER EDUCATION Lenoir-Rhyne University Catawba Valley Community College FOR MORE INFORMATION Carteret County Economic Development Council Inc. 252-222-6121 www.carteretedc.com FOR MORE INFORMATION Caswell County Economic Development 336-694-4193, ext. 105 www.caswellcountync.gov/economic/econdev.htm FOR MORE INFORMATION Catawba County Economic Development 828-267-1564 www.catawbaedc.org 60 NO RT H C AROL I NA E CO NOMI C DE V ELOP M E N T GU IDE