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North Carolina is projected to reach 11.7 million people by 2030. It's not just the population total that will change.
Recent Census Bureau estimates show North Carolina passes 11 million milestone earlier than expected
North Carolina continues its robust population growth as shown in our latest population estimates for July 1, 2023. North Carolina’s 400,000 person population gain since April 1, 2020 was bested by only Texas and Florida, and the gains were more dispersed throughout the state than in the previous decade.
I have received many questions about the implications for population and population change for counties and municipalities that have been heavily impacted by Hurricane Helene. Unlike my prior posts focused on the population characteristics before the storm struck, this post will attempt to address questions of future population impacts.
In a previous post, I summarized the population characteristics of the 25-counties first included in the federal disaster declaration on September 28, 2024. Since that time, 14 counties have been added.
I was set to prepare a series of blog posts regarding trends we see in our recently published county and municipal population estimates. But given the disaster in western North Carolina and the concern everyone feels about people in those communities, I thought it best to provide a quick summary of the population living in the area most impacted by Hurricane Helene.
Agriculture is an important part of North Carolina's economy and culture. Strong population growth has the potential to impact farmland, but loss of farmland is not a foregone conclusion.
U.S. Census Bureau’s latest population estimates offers the first glimpse at post-pandemic trends. Will these trends continue in North Carolina?
North Carolina's population is becoming older. One challenge for older adults is ageism. Understand what it is and why it's important to overcome this bias.
Suburban, exurban, and recreation/retirement counties show strong population gains from other North Carolina counties
Seven counties and 14 municipalities received corrections to their official 2020 Census count after the Census Bureau's review.
In North Carolina, 8.7 million people age 5 and older speak only English at home (88% of the 5 and older population). But other languages can be found spoken in North Carolina as well.
Most of North Carolina’s immigrant population arrived over a decade ago from all parts of the world, work in a variety of industries, and live in urban and rural areas of the state.
The US Census Bureau's latest population estimates show North Carolina continues to grow by leaps and bounds.