 Welcome to CarolinaWest
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DEMOGRAPHICS
Employment Facts
- The total labor force for the CarolinaWest region is 228,170.
- The unemployment rate for the CarolinaWest region as of 04/08 was 4.2%.
- There are over 13,748 active job applicants registered for work with the Employment Security Commission. Applicants have the education and are ready to go to work for you.
Taxes
- Low Taxes
- No Inventory Taxes
- Corporate Income Tax Rate is 6.9%
- Franchise Tax Rate is $1.50 per $1,000
- Worker's Compensation Rate is $2.32 per $100
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Transportation
- NC has nation's largest system of state maintained roads... Toll Free.
- Region is served by I-26 and I-40 with access to I-85, I-77 and I-81.
- Regional air service by Delta (ASA and ComAir) US Airways, Continental and Northwest.
- Rail service by Norfolk Southern & CSX.
- Intermodal service to two deep-water ports.
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Quality Of Life
- Mild four-season climate.
- Year round outdoor activity.
- Attractive cost of living ...below national average.
- Premier community hospitals
- Mission Hospital ranked "One of America's Best Orthopedic hospitals" by US News and World Report - July 2006.
- Region is within a 100 mile radius of 5 million people.
- Nationally recognized quality of life - Places Rated Almanac.
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Blue Ridge Mountains
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Asheville Symphony
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Fall walk at AB Tech
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Connestee Falls
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CarolinaWest, Inc.
