North Carolina, USA
North Carolina, USA: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 10,439,388 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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North Carolina at a glance
Rolled up from the 30 regions inside North Carolina on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Population10,584,340
census
Places inside30
18 with a full /local page
Businesses on file198,167
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered210
in the company directory
Who represents them9
places with a /politics page
Property & employers9 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Who leads North Carolina, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
Leadership
Economy & households
- Population
- 11,197,968 persons (Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimate, July 1) (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 895,919.2 USD millions, current dollars (BEA nominal GDP, North Carolina) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 3.4 % seasonally adjusted (BLS LAUS) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 80,250 USD, current dollars (Census CPS ASEC state estimate) (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 64.5 % (Census CPS/HVS homeownership rate) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 61,100 USD average debt per person with a credit score (NY Fed Consumer Credit Panel via USAFacts; per person, not per household) (2025) ↗
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Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia (MSA) ↗ | 419,900 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Raleigh-Cary (MSA) ↗ | 445,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Greensboro-High Point (MSA) ↗ | 329,900 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Durham-Chapel Hill (MSA) ↗ | 460,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Winston-Salem (MSA) ↗ | 330,900 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Fayetteville (MSA) ↗ | 279,950 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
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Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language other than English at home ↗ | 1,500,000 people | most often at home — persons age 5+ (count, ACS; 'about one in 7 North Carolinians') | 2024 |
| Spanish ↗ | 956,500 people | most often at home — persons age 5+ (count, ACS); 63.8% of non-English-at-home speakers | 2024 |
| English only ↗ | 87.7% | most often at home — % of population age 5+ (ACS) | 2019 |
| English ↗ | official status (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 145-12) | 1987 |
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Largest companies in North Carolina
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of America (Charlotte) ↗ | revenue (Fortune 500 2026, rank 20) | 191.57 USD billions | 2026 |
| Lowe's (Mooresville) ↗ | revenue (Fortune 500 2026, rank 52) | 86.29 USD billions | 2026 |
| Honeywell International (Charlotte) ↗ | revenue (Fortune 500 2026, rank 116) | 40.69 USD billions | 2026 |
| Nucor (Charlotte) ↗ | revenue (Fortune 500 2026, rank 142) | 32.49 USD billions | 2026 |
| Duke Energy (Charlotte) ↗ | revenue (Fortune 500 2026, rank 145) | 31.79 USD billions | 2026 |
| Truist Financial (Charlotte) ↗ | revenue (Fortune 500 2026, rank 150) | 30.44 USD billions | 2026 |
| Sonic Automotive (Charlotte) ↗ | revenue (Fortune 500 2026, rank 297) | 15.15 USD billions | 2026 |
| Ingersoll Rand (Davidson) ↗ | revenue (Fortune 500 2026, rank 494) | 7.65 USD billions | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
- 2025-01Josh Stein took the oath as North Carolina's 76th governor in the Old Senate Chambers of the State Capitol in Raleigh on January 1, 2025; Chief Justice Paul Newby administered the oath. ↗
- 2026-06With the 2026 Fortune 500 list, the 14-county Charlotte Region (NC and SC) counts eight Fortune 500 and 19 Fortune 1000 companies; Ingersoll Rand (Davidson) entered the 500 at No. 494. ↗
- 2025The average North Carolinian with a credit score owed $61,100 in 2025, about $2,100 less than the average American; mortgages made up about 67.5% of household debt in the state. ↗
- 2024North Carolina is home to 5.8% of all US Telugu speakers, its largest share of any non-English language; Spanish, Chinese and Telugu are the three most-spoken non-English home languages in the state. ↗
- 2026-09North Carolina's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.4% in September 2026. ↗
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Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Median household income$69,904
Median rent$1,162/mo
Immigrants8.7%
Renters33.6%
Aged 65+16.9%
Unemployment4.7%
Low income13.2%
Speak a language other than English12.3%
Languages spoken at home (other than English)
- Spanish841,347 · 7.9%
- Other Indo-European languages107,683 · 1%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages83,560 · 0.8%
- Other and unspecified languages44,131 · 0.4%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)39,527 · 0.4%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun38,710 · 0.4%
- Arabic31,148 · 0.3%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages29,143 · 0.3%
- German or other West Germanic languages26,790 · 0.3%
- Vietnamese25,565 · 0.2%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)16,840 · 0.2%
- Korean15,737 · 0.1%
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Largest places in North Carolina
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Charlotte, North Carolina full874,579
- 2.Raleigh, North Carolina full467,665
- 3.Greensboro, North Carolina full299,035
- 4.Durham, North Carolina full283,506
- 5.Winston-Salem, North Carolina full249,545
- 6.Cary, North Carolina full176,686
- 7.Wilmington, North Carolina full115,451
- 8.High Point, North Carolina full114,059
- 9.Concord, NC full105,240
- 10.Asheville, North Carolina full94,589
- 11.Greenville, North Carolina full87,521
- 12.Gastonia, NC full80,411
- 13.Jacksonville, North Carolina full73,507
- 14.Kannapolis, NC full56,470
- 15.New Bern, North Carolina full31,291
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Inside North Carolina
30 regions have North Carolina as their parent.
- Asheboro, NC
- Asheville, North Carolina
- Black Mountain, North Carolina
- Cary, North Carolina
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Concord, NC
- Durham, North Carolina
- Fayetteville, North Carolina
- Gastonia, NC
- Greensboro, North Carolina
- Greenville, North Carolina
- Hendersonville, North Carolina
- High Point, North Carolina
- Hot Springs, North Carolina
- Jacksonville, North Carolina
- Kannapolis, NC
- Kinston, NC
- Lexington, North Carolina
- Mooresville, NC
- New Bern, North Carolina
- Pinehurst, North Carolina
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Salisbury, North Carolina
- Selma, North Carolina
- Southern Pines, North Carolina
- Southport, North Carolina
- Topsail Beach, NC town
- Waynesville, NC
- Wilmington, North Carolina
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Companies based in North Carolina
4 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 210 across North Carolina and the places inside it — search them all below.
| Company | Industry | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Alliance Bank & Trust | Finance | |
| BoldSign | Software | |
| Harmony House Foods | Food | 2005 |
| Zentra | Retail |
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of North Carolina, USA are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.