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ZIP Codes With the Most Tax Returns Filed in North Carolina

What this measures. Number of individual income tax returns filed. A rough proxy for how many households a ZIP code contains, available where census figures are not. Source: IRS Statistics of Income, ZIP code data, data release 2026-10-12.

# ZIP City County Returns filed
1 28269 Charlotte Mecklenburg 40,230
2 27587 Wake Forest Wake 37,450
3 28027 Concord Cabarrus 35,920
4 28277 Charlotte Mecklenburg 34,870
5 27610 Raleigh Wake 33,810
6 28078 Huntersville Mecklenburg 33,790
7 27703 Durham Durham 33,550
8 28215 Charlotte Mecklenburg 31,220
9 27526 Fuquay Varina Harnett 30,660
10 27519 Cary Wake 30,150
11 28173 Waxhaw Union 28,910
12 27616 Raleigh Wake 28,300
13 27713 Durham Durham 28,080
14 28227 Charlotte Mecklenburg 27,700
15 27284 Kernersville Forsyth 27,680
16 27529 Garner Wake 27,640
17 27410 Greensboro Guilford 27,480
18 28216 Charlotte Mecklenburg 27,300
19 27406 Greensboro Guilford 27,200
20 28025 Concord Cabarrus 26,090
21 27603 Raleigh Wake 25,800
22 28110 Monroe Union 25,730
23 28314 Fayetteville Cumberland 25,250
24 27265 High Point Guilford 24,960
25 28601 Hickory Catawba 24,860
26 28205 Charlotte Mecklenburg 24,720
27 28117 Mooresville Iredell 24,140
28 28451 Leland Brunswick 23,470
29 28412 Wilmington New Hanover 23,270
30 27834 Greenville Pitt 22,940
31 27520 Clayton Johnston 22,930
32 27613 Raleigh Wake 22,900
33 27405 Greensboro Guilford 22,820
34 28210 Charlotte Mecklenburg 22,780
35 27858 Greenville Pitt 22,760
36 27513 Cary Wake 22,640
37 27407 Greensboro Guilford 22,610
38 28655 Morganton Burke 22,470
39 27502 Apex Wake 22,380
40 28273 Charlotte Mecklenburg 22,240
41 27615 Raleigh Wake 22,220
42 28806 Asheville Buncombe 22,150
43 27604 Raleigh Wake 22,140
44 28262 Charlotte Mecklenburg 22,130
45 27106 Winston-Salem Forsyth 22,090
46 27707 Durham Durham 22,070
47 28546 Jacksonville Onslow 22,050
48 28105 Matthews Mecklenburg 21,930
49 27107 Winston-Salem Davidson 21,860
50 27540 Holly Springs Wake 21,800

Showing the top 50 of 722 ZIP codes in North Carolina that have this figure . 28269 ranks 1st at 40,230, against 21,800 in 50th place.

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zipcodes.pro. “ZIP Codes With the Most Tax Returns Filed in North Carolina.” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/rankings/nc/most-tax-returns

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