Taxable retail sales.

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Latest Previous Previous % change from month month year last year TAXABLE RETAIL SALES (1) ($000s) Alamance 110,644.2 125,707.4 119,736.4 (7.6) Buncombe 241,326.2 253,157.0 242,749.5 (0.6) Cabarrus 169,846.9 176,118.4 156,492.6 8.5 Catawba 135,472.6 142,659.6 125,901.0 7.6 Cumberland 269,142.4 289,504.5 236,239.5 13.9 Durham 335,457.7 355,103.6 274,982.6 22.0 Forsyth 305,999.1 314,573.9 298,614.1 2.5 Gaston 121,044.0 123,127.0 109,570.1 10.5 Guilford 408,146.3 453,454.0 443,165.8 (7.9) Iredell 124,542.8 131,869.5 113,557.9 9.7 Mecklenburg 1,124,054.3 1,157,626.6 989,253.5 13.6 New Hanover 226,243.9 234,738.8 204,470.7 10.6 Onslow 129,589.6 125,411.9 113,204.4 14.5 Pitt 135,478.6 139,236.1 104,451.8 29.7 Wake 815,839.3 872,896.6 817,753.6 (0.2) Latest Previous Previous % change month month year from last year CONSTRUCTION (2) Top 10 counties ($000s) Mecklenburg 168,869.4 10,503.1 19,512.7 765.4 Rutherford 37,404.3 187.0 1,935.0 1,833.0 Henderson 25,470.0 1,673.6 18,139.4 40.4 Wake 24,906.2 25,758.0 23,055.7 8.0 Cumberland 20,582.6 20,825.1 1,228.0 1,576.1 Buncombe 20,328.6 17,110.4 9,119.1 122.9 Beaufort 17,414.9 27.7 0.0 nm Iredell 16,818.3 19,231.8 1,173.8 1,332.8 Lenoir 14,108.5 625.7 0.0 nm Harnett 13,163.7 0.0 0.0 nm North Carolina 550,362.9 351,102.4 497,323.8 10.7 AIR PASSENGER BOARDINGS (3) Asheville 39,629 37,472 29,198 35.7 Charlotte * 1,724,676 1,703,291 1,586,584 8.7 Fayetteville 25,121 23,823 21,761 15.4 Greensboro 74,305 73,229 80,599 (7.8) Greenville 5,563 5,622 5,640 (1.4) Jacksonville 15,801 14,303 12,328 28.2 New Bern 13,085 12,006 12,666 3.3 Raleigh/Durham 424,080...