# Counties in North Carolina by personal income, 2024

All 100 values come from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `personal_income`
- Unit: USD million
- Definition: Total income received by the residents of a place from work, own businesses, property and government benefits, before income taxes, in millions of current US dollars. United States: Bureau of Economic Analysis regional accounts, table SAINC1 line 1 for the nation and states and CAINC1 line 1 for counties.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CAINC1: county annual personal income summary, personal income (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents (https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC1.zip)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-economic-analysis
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. CAINC1: county annual personal income summary, personal income (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents. https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC1.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/personal-income/north-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | USD million |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Wake County | 105,463.3 |
| 2 | Mecklenburg County | 103,858.5 |
| 3 | Guilford County | 35,577.2 |
| 4 | Forsyth County | 25,476.9 |
| 5 | Durham County | 23,736.9 |
| 6 | Union County | 20,156.3 |
| 7 | Buncombe County | 19,718.7 |
| 8 | Cumberland County | 17,727.5 |
| 9 | New Hanover County | 16,952.1 |
| 10 | Cabarrus County | 14,968 |
| 11 | Iredell County | 14,468.5 |
| 12 | Johnston County | 13,822.3 |
| 13 | Orange County | 13,419.2 |
| 14 | Gaston County | 13,406.8 |
| 15 | Onslow County | 12,234.1 |
| 16 | Brunswick County | 10,739 |
| 17 | Pitt County | 10,623.8 |
| 18 | Catawba County | 10,084.4 |
| 19 | Alamance County | 9,924.1 |
| 20 | Davidson County | 9,601.4 |
| 21 | Rowan County | 7,931.8 |
| 22 | Moore County | 7,905.8 |
| 23 | Randolph County | 7,706.4 |
| 24 | Henderson County | 7,689.3 |
| 25 | Chatham County | 7,686 |
| 26 | Harnett County | 7,323.5 |
| 27 | Wayne County | 6,492.9 |
| 28 | Craven County | 6,450.9 |
| 29 | Lincoln County | 6,328.7 |
| 30 | Robeson County | 5,522 |
| 31 | Nash County | 5,501.2 |
| 32 | Cleveland County | 5,230.4 |
| 33 | Carteret County | 5,211.6 |
| 34 | Rockingham County | 4,754.4 |
| 35 | Burke County | 4,519.9 |
| 36 | Wilson County | 4,392 |
| 37 | Franklin County | 4,157 |
| 38 | Caldwell County | 4,086.3 |
| 39 | Pender County | 3,965.4 |
| 40 | Lee County | 3,933.5 |
| 41 | Surry County | 3,882.6 |
| 42 | Haywood County | 3,686 |
| 43 | Stanly County | 3,650.7 |
| 44 | Wilkes County | 3,500.7 |
| 45 | Granville County | 3,374.4 |
| 46 | Dare County | 3,192.6 |
| 47 | Lenoir County | 3,153.8 |
| 48 | Rutherford County | 3,115.4 |
| 49 | Watauga County | 3,104.2 |
| 50 | Sampson County | 3,076.6 |
| 51 | Davie County | 3,075.2 |
| 52 | Duplin County | 2,947.4 |
| 53 | Beaufort County | 2,764.2 |
| 54 | Hoke County | 2,554.3 |
| 55 | Edgecombe County | 2,461.6 |
| 56 | Columbus County | 2,452.1 |
| 57 | Stokes County | 2,398.5 |
| 58 | Halifax County | 2,377.5 |
| 59 | McDowell County | 2,286.2 |
| 60 | Jackson County | 2,258.1 |
| 61 | Pasquotank County | 2,233.6 |
| 62 | Transylvania County | 2,204.5 |
| 63 | Macon County | 2,167 |
| 64 | Richmond County | 2,162.6 |
| 65 | Person County | 2,118.1 |
| 66 | Currituck County | 2,098.2 |
| 67 | Vance County | 2,091.6 |
| 68 | Yadkin County | 2,047.2 |
| 69 | Alexander County | 1,961.6 |
| 70 | Scotland County | 1,618.5 |
| 71 | Bladen County | 1,618.4 |
| 72 | Polk County | 1,467.8 |
| 73 | Ashe County | 1,403.9 |
| 74 | Cherokee County | 1,370.9 |
| 75 | Montgomery County | 1,323.4 |
| 76 | Anson County | 1,243.9 |
| 77 | Madison County | 1,138.3 |
| 78 | Caswell County | 1,078 |
| 79 | Martin County | 1,009.2 |
| 80 | Avery County | 959.9 |
| 81 | Hertford County | 955 |
| 82 | Yancey County | 928.9 |
| 83 | Bertie County | 912.2 |
| 84 | Greene County | 886.3 |
| 85 | Northampton County | 875.7 |
| 86 | Swain County | 832 |
| 87 | Chowan County | 801.5 |
| 88 | Perquimans County | 793.2 |
| 89 | Warren County | 781 |
| 90 | Mitchell County | 763.2 |
| 91 | Pamlico County | 748.4 |
| 92 | Camden County | 699.6 |
| 93 | Clay County | 608.5 |
| 94 | Alleghany County | 589.5 |
| 95 | Gates County | 576.1 |
| 96 | Washington County | 541 |
| 97 | Jones County | 510.7 |
| 98 | Graham County | 389.7 |
| 99 | Hyde County | 260.2 |
| 100 | Tyrrell County | 165.3 |