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Work hard, play hard. WalletHub ranked Raleigh the No. 18 best place to start a career behind No. 1 spot Atlanta—while Charlotte ranked No. 29.
Mass transit for the win. GoRaleigh is the Triangle’s most-used bus service, welcoming 7.6 million riders last year.
Go bananas. Two recent Savannah Bananas games at Chapel Hill’s Kenan Stadium generated a whopping $17.1 million for the greater Chapel Hill area, with an average of 16,984 hotel rooms booked a night and 25K overnight visitors.
Tip, please. According to recent data from Toast, NCers are above-average tippers, clocking in at 19.3%, compared to a nationwide average of 19.2% in Q4 2025.
Caps off! Raleigh ranked the No. 5 best markets for recent grads, based on factors like wages, cost of living and hiring rates.
After spiking in recent years, Raleigh saw one of the largest drops in homicide rates among major cities across the country in Q1 2026. In the U.S. as a whole, robberies fell by 20.4%, rapes by 7.2% and aggravated assaults by 4.8%.
Cheers to Tito’s Handmade Vodka, NC’s top-selling spirit last year.
Your basic supply and demand in action: Due to a flooded apartment market, Raleigh—along with most metro areas in the Sun Belt—saw rent decline over the last year. Read: Between February 2026 and February 2025, median rents in Oak City were down 2.2%, currently clocking in at an average of $1,3661 per Apartment List.
Return to office? The post-pandemic comeback is real, with a report from CRE Daily showing March 2026 as the busiest in-office March since COVID.
Wake County home owners may have to cough up additional cash, as Wake Manager David Ellis recommended a 2-cent property tax increase in the 2027 budget in an effort to address a funding shortfall. Meanwhile, the current median annual property tax in Raleigh is $3,200—the No. 257 highest in the country.
Can you actually afford to live in Raleigh? According to a new analysis from the National Association of Home Builders, 66.4% of NC households are getting priced out (read: housing costs exceed 28% of income) of buying a new home.
In not-so-great spirits, budget-friendly Spirit Airlines abruptly shut down at the beginning of the month, immediately canceling flights and deactivating its customer service line.
If they can’t build it, who will come? According to the Turner Building Cost Index, national building costs are up 77% since 2013.
Migratory eastern monarch butterflies remain at risk of extinction. Though new census data shows a slight uptick in population, this year’s count of the beloved orange-and-black butterflies remains perilously low.
Inflation is still soaring. Largely due to rising gasoline prices, consumer prices rose 3.8% in April YoY, surpassing the previous month’s reported increase of 3.3%.
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