First Look at 2020 Census for North Carolina | Eastern North Carolina Now

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North Carolina grew by 9.5% over the last decade

    Between 2010 and 2020, North Carolina's population grew from 9,535,483 to 10,439,483, an increase of 903,905 or 9.5%. Over this same period, 51 North Carolina counties lost population and 49 grew.

Wake County is now officially bigger than Mecklenburg County

    Wake County officially surpassed Mecklenburg to become the most populous county in North Carolina. Otherwise, the five largest counties in North Carolina in 2020 were also the five largest in 2010:

  • Wake: 1,129,410
  • Mecklenburg: 1,115,482
  • Guilford: 541,299
  • Forsyth: 382,590
  • Cumberland: 334,728

    Both Wake and Mecklenburg are more than twice as populous as Guilford, the state's third largest county. Wake, Mecklenburg, and Guilford grew faster than the state over the decade while Forsyth and Cumberland grew more slowly.

Tyrrell County remains the least populous county in NC

    The five smallest NC counties in 2020 are the same as in 2010, with some shuffling between Jones and Camden:

  • Tyrrell: 3,245
  • Hyde: 4,589
  • Graham: 8,030
  • Jones: 9,172
  • Camden: 10,355

    Camden County was the only one of these counties to grow over the decade (3.8%). The other four counties had large population losses.

Fasting-growing counties in NC

    After a decade of population estimates suggesting that Brunswick was the fastest-growing county, Johnston County took a slight edge in the end. The five fastest-growing counties in North Carolina from 2010-2020 were:

  • Johnston: 27.9%
  • Brunswick: 27.2%
  • Cabarrus: 26.8%
  • Wake: 25.4%
  • Durham: 21.4%

Largest population losses in NC counties

    51 counties in North Carolina lost population over the decade. The counties with the largest numeric declines were:

  • Robeson: –17,638
  • Duplin: –9,790
  • Edgecombe: –7,652
  • Columbus: –7,475
  • Halifax: –6,069

Racial/ethnic composition of NC in 2020 (from largest to smallest)

  • White: 60.5%
  • Black: 20.2%
  • Hispanic: 10.7%
  • Multiracial: 3.9%
  • Asian: 3.3%
  • American Indian: 1.0%
  • All other races: 0.5%

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