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North Carolina

First-level unit, United States of America: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 56 first-level units
Page GRX-USA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO USA / USStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
11,374,332
people (GHSL 2025)
128,589 km²
area
3.3%
of United States of America
100
units inside

01Imephu

Inside North Carolina

The 100 ADM2 units of North Carolina.

FIG 1 · 100 units inside North Carolina
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

11,374,332

3.3% of United States of America.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

11,238,652

-1% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

128,589 km²

88 people per km².

Code

US-NC

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Indawo esogwini ephansi

666,003

people on land at or below 10 m, 5.9% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

100 units inside North Carolina

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Alamance – 184,794 201,071 1,125.37 164 1.6% 0
Alexander – 46,412 39,801 683.79 68 0.4% 0
Alleghany – 11,724 9,624 612.52 19 0.1% 0
Anson – 31,472 17,543 1,391.05 23 0.3% 0
Ashe – 31,895 25,567 1,108.93 29 0.3% 0
Avery – 18,216 17,203 640.18 28 0.2% 0
Beaufort – 50,133 38,096 2,232.54 22 0.4% 25,266
Bertie – 26,918 15,616 1,853 15 0.2% 3,588
Bladen – 40,659 23,880 2,299.59 18 0.4% 1,435
Brunswick – 131,896 147,532 2,316.64 57 1.2% 68,009
Buncombe – 279,743 291,627 1,711.23 163 2.5% 0
Burke – 101,462 85,190 1,331.3 76 0.9% 0
Cabarrus – 205,795 265,080 943.36 218 1.8% 0
Caldwell – 97,018 78,722 1,229.71 79 0.9% 0
Camden – 9,256 8,442 640.16 14 0.1% 7,326
Carteret – 71,852 62,907 1,700.93 42 0.6% 43,893
Caswell – 26,709 22,457 1,109.19 24 0.2% 0
Catawba – 178,864 171,166 1,075.55 166 1.6% 0
Chatham – 84,718 107,995 1,837.47 46 0.7% 0
Cherokee – 30,808 27,499 1,206.98 26 0.3% 0
Chowan – 17,354 12,311 466.65 37 0.2% 10,339
Clay – 10,406 9,604 571.83 18 0.1% 0
Cleveland – 111,341 105,371 1,212.34 92 1% 0
Columbus – 61,551 39,814 2,473.78 25 0.5% 6,789
Craven – 117,439 94,703 1,924.27 61 1% 72,093
Cumberland – 345,515 361,188 1,706.33 202 3% 0
Currituck – 22,804 26,223 771.47 30 0.2% 19,261
Dare – 26,093 25,249 1,191.97 22 0.2% 14,374
Davidson – 183,993 179,247 1,472.87 125 1.6% 0
Davie – 47,552 43,303 689.64 69 0.4% 0
Duplin – 70,894 41,195 2,123.33 33 0.6% 3,201
Durham – 355,115 395,810 771.38 460 3.1% 0
Edgecombe – 64,429 42,224 1,310.3 49 0.6% 0
Forsyth – 389,966 410,091 1,065.76 366 3.4% 0
Franklin – 78,660 80,068 1,283.62 61 0.7% 0
Gaston – 233,612 249,205 941.81 248 2% 0
Gates – 14,129 8,332 894.7 16 0.1% 1,065
Graham – 10,302 6,862 780.47 13 0.1% 0
Granville – 71,481 64,510 1,390.81 51 0.6% 0
Greene – 27,211 21,750 692.97 39 0.2% 904
Guilford – 601,387 613,813 1,702.92 353 5.3% 0
Halifax – 52,928 37,113 1,888.1 28 0.5% 1
Harnett – 134,010 147,334 1,557.96 86 1.2% 0
Haywood – 68,354 65,435 1,433.68 48 0.6% 0
Henderson – 127,900 127,707 971.29 132 1.1% 0
Hertford – 27,542 18,034 929.16 30 0.2% 1,420
Hoke – 55,834 53,713 1,015.8 55 0.5% 0
Hyde – 5,264 2,696 1,948.58 3 0% 4,922
Iredell – 197,526 215,079 1,548.79 128 1.7% 0
Jackson – 46,593 45,488 1,282.37 36 0.4% 0
Johnston – 215,847 251,188 2,064.7 105 1.9% 14
Jones – 10,737 7,597 1,228.46 9 0.1% 3,236
Lee – 69,087 68,563 670.6 103 0.6% 0
Lenoir – 68,028 52,606 1,039.67 65 0.6% 4,566
Lincoln – 95,077 96,983 791.4 120 0.8% 0
Macon – 39,936 39,389 1,346.4 30 0.4% 0
Madison – 23,985 21,549 1,165.42 21 0.2% 0
Martin – 26,229 18,476 1,183.74 22 0.2% 2,444
McDowell – 50,991 44,231 1,153.85 44 0.4% 0
Mecklenburg – 1,094,031 1,302,181 1,417.36 772 9.6% 0
Mitchell – 19,509 14,854 578.16 34 0.2% 0
Montgomery – 32,420 24,589 1,297.51 25 0.3% 0
Moore – 101,610 106,641 1,822.76 56 0.9% 0
Nash – 110,036 93,294 1,402.18 78 1% 0
New Hanover – 234,783 235,851 569.74 412 2.1% 135,053
Northampton – 30,600 17,397 1,424.41 21 0.3% 63
Onslow – 208,545 231,797 2,115.69 99 1.8% 104,893
Orange – 172,414 171,575 1,037.17 166 1.5% 0
Pamlico – 12,779 9,276 1,013.53 13 0.1% 9,449
Pasquotank – 47,203 39,006 603 78 0.4% 41,609
Pender – 70,088 73,914 2,286 31 0.6% 28,016
Perquimans – 12,124 9,381 659.31 18 0.1% 8,824
Person – 43,956 38,569 1,046.97 42 0.4% 0
Pitt – 203,960 174,939 1,697.33 120 1.8% 36,820
Polk – 22,906 16,428 618.53 37 0.2% 0
Randolph – 148,755 138,358 2,045.36 73 1.3% 0
Richmond – 52,242 39,494 1,242.95 42 0.5% 0
Robeson – 155,915 102,714 2,460.94 63 1.4% 0
Rockingham – 107,819 91,106 1,483.15 73 0.9% 0
Rowan – 162,099 163,890 1,354 120 1.4% 0
Rutherford – 76,230 60,222 1,464.73 52 0.7% 0
Sampson – 71,688 56,080 2,454.74 29 0.6% 74
Scotland – 39,160 30,635 831.8 47 0.3% 0
Stanly – 68,991 66,763 1,050.35 66 0.6% 0
Stokes – 56,560 43,753 1,177.92 48 0.5% 0
Surry – 77,396 64,376 1,396.04 55 0.7% 0
Swain – 17,602 16,531 1,398.49 13 0.2% 0
Transylvania – 37,981 31,899 988.61 38 0.3% 0
Tyrrell – 4,521 1,940 1,078.56 4 0% 3,225
Union – 253,244 271,131 1,656.26 153 2.2% 0
Vance – 50,710 38,904 696.04 73 0.4% 0
Wake – 1,299,683 1,304,342 2,218.61 586 11.4% 0
Warren – 26,089 17,393 1,151.66 23 0.2% 0
Washington – 13,497 7,737 974.11 14 0.1% 9,304
Watauga – 61,269 59,595 810.43 76 0.5% 0
Wayne – 132,447 105,164 1,443.95 92 1.2% 0
Wilkes – 82,919 66,136 1,959.12 42 0.7% 0
Wilson – 92,311 76,441 967.11 95 0.8% 0
Yadkin – 44,085 38,002 874.65 50 0.4% 0
Yancey – 20,136 19,259 809.2 25 0.2% 0
04Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
3,388.6 H3 cells
Amachweba
2 H3 cells
Izikhumulo zezindiza
3 H3 cells
Major roads
7,693.6 H3 cells
Ojantshi
807.7 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
969.8 H3 cells
05Ubungozi

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for North Carolina publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for United States of America.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM1, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM2, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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