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Charlotte
Mayor Rob Harrington · council-appointed interim, not popularly elected · Democratic · in office since July 1, 2026
The Executive Summary
Interim Mayor Rob Harrington (D) — council-appointed interim, not popularly elected — has led Charlotte since July 2026; Charlotte is not yet scored — a mayor's record opens only after enough years in office for the lagged data to say anything fair; the card below says exactly where each metric stands.
| Unemployment 4% (2025) | Too early |
| Median household income $86,416 (2024 · constant 2024 $) | Too early |
| Poverty rate 11.9% (2024) | Too early |
| Government form | Council-manager |
Rob Harrington has not been in office long enough to be scored — attribution opens two years in, the same rule applied to governors.
Sources: unemployment — BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics · median household income — Census ACS 1-year, CPI-U deflated · poverty rate — Census ACS 1-year (B17001). Unemployment runs through 2025; income and poverty through 2024. The 2025 unemployment point is an eleven-month average — October 2025 was never collected during the federal shutdown — and it is included and flagged here under the same rule the state pages apply to the same statistic (one statistic, one rulebook, as of v2.6; through v2.5 city pages excluded it instead, and the changelog says so).
Scored on economic outcomes only — unemployment, real median income and poverty. Crime, housing and health are not yet included, so this is a narrower measure than a governor’s. Government form follows standard reference classifications and was not verified city by city. Methodology
Charlotte sits in NC, whose governor Josh Stein does not yet hold a ranked statewide record, so there is no state standing to quote beside this page. State outcomes would not be the mayor’s grade in any case — a city is not a state.