In 2023, the per capita personal income in North Carolina was 61,839 U.S. dollars. Per capita personal income is calculated as the personal income of the residents of a given area divided by the resident population of the area.

In 2021, Midland metropolitan area in Texas had a per capita real GDP of about 227,765 chained U.S. dollars, the highest of any metro area in the United States. The San-Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara and San Francisco-Oakland-Berkely metro areas in California also had high real GDP per capita. The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area in Washington state and the Trenton-Princeton metro area in New Jersey round out the top five. Only the top 100 metro areas by GDP per capita are shown here.

In 2023, the real gross domestic product (GDP) of North Carolina was 625.68 billion U.S. dollars. This is a significant increase from the previous year, when the state's GDP stood at 609.06 billion U.S. dollars.