North Carolina · NAICS 53 · Annual, 2025
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in North Carolina
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 53 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (NAICS 53) employed about 72,800 people in North Carolina across roughly 18,617 establishments, with average annual pay of $72,570.
Employment in Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in North Carolina grew 22.0% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 72,800. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for North Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 72,800Employment, 2025
- 18,617Establishments
- $72,570Avg. annual pay
- 1.5%Share of North Carolina jobs
- 0.94Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 48,200; 2005 50,100; 2006 52,300; 2007 54,100; 2008 52,900; 2009 49,200; 2010 47,400; 2011 47,300; 2012 48,100; 2013 50,000; 2014 52,400; 2015 54,900; 2016 56,900; 2017 58,600; 2018 60,000; 2019 61,500; 2020 59,700; 2021 63,500; 2022 68,600; 2023 71,400; 2024 72,400; 2025 72,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72,833 | 18,617 | $72,566 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 72,387 | 18,299 | $69,416 | 1.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 71,407 | 18,287 | $66,555 | 4.1% | pub. |
| 2022 | 68,603 | 16,958 | $65,516 | 8.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 63,489 | 15,054 | $60,433 | 6.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 59,707 | 14,231 | $55,863 | 3.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 61,537 | 13,392 | $52,656 | 2.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 59,985 | 12,776 | $50,797 | 2.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 58,601 | 12,370 | $48,652 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 56,931 | 11,930 | $47,081 | 3.8% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 3 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of real estate and rental and leasing | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 531 | Real Estate | 55,793 | 76.6% | 0.95 | pub. |
| 532 | Rental and Leasing Services | 16,386 | 22.5% | 0.90 | pub. |
| 533 | Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works) | 654 | 0.9% | 0.94 | pub. |
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth
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