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North Carolina / Burke County

How's Burke County?

One question about Burke County, North Carolina, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

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Burke County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 1994 to 2025:wages and jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; air quality from the EPA, where a monitor reads it.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$981+4.2%+26.8%+46.2%3rd quartile1,995 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 51 of 100 in North Carolina
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives29.8K jobs+0.7%+4.5%+0.9%Highest quartile727 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 31 of 100 in North Carolina

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air1994 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days74.7% of days+2.6 pts––3rd quartile345 of 648 counties in 1994 · 6 of 26 in North Carolina
Median daily AQI1994 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate41 AQI−1.0 AQI––2nd quartile254 of 648 counties in 1994 · 16 of 26 in North Carolina

4 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Burke County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Burke County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.