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Notable numbers: Presidential polls, Wake County growth and Jeb Bush’s gun

Jeb Bush’s seemingly random tweet with a picture of his gun was retweeted more than 25,000 times.
Jeb Bush’s seemingly random tweet with a picture of his gun was retweeted more than 25,000 times.

4 Where Wake ranks in the list of fastest-growing counties in the country

63 The number of people who move here daily – mostly from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania

221,000 The number of people who work in Wake but live elsewhere.

145,000 The number of people who live in Wake but work elsewhere

267,000 The number of people who live and work in Wake County

39 The percentage of Republican voters, according to the latest Quinnipiac University national poll, who said they would vote for Donald Trump

19 The percentage who said they’d vote for Marco Rubio

18 The percentage for Ted Cruz

44 The percentage of Democratic voters nationwide who said they support Hillary Clinton

42 The percentage for Bernie Sanders

29 The percentage of North Carolina’s Republican voters, according to the latest Public Policy poll, who support Trump

19 The percentage who support Cruz

16 The percentage for Rubio

11 The percentage for John Kasich

52 The percentage of North Carolina’s Democratic voters who support Clinton, down from 59 percent a month ago

35 The percentage for Sanders, up from 26 percent a month ago

64 Clinton’s support among North Carolina’s black voters

24 Sanders’ support

11 The percentage of homeless adults in the United States who were over age 50 in the early 1990s

^50 The percentage who are over 50 now

700,000 The number of U.S. military veterans in prisons in 2013

30 The percentage of never-been-married Americans who have used an online or mobile dating service

19 The percentage of divorced or separated Americans who have

25,000 The number of times Jeb Bush’s tweet displaying a picture of his gun was retweeted

69 The percentage of Wake County public school students referred to courts in 2014-15 who were black

1.7 The number of times more likely black students were to be arrested for fighting and theft than other groups

63 The percentage of Wake County students suspended who were black

24 The percentage of all Wake County students who are black

48 The percentage of the 850 court referrals that were made to the adult system

33 The percentage made to juvenile courts

18 The percentage referred to Teen Court

<1 The percentage sent to mediation

This story was originally published February 19, 2016 at 4:34 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Presidential polls, Wake County growth and Jeb Bush’s gun."

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