UPDATED: NC House District Population Estimates and Deviation from Ideal...
Download the 2014 Population Estimates for NC Congressional Districts. North Carolina’s redrawn congressional districts had equal population in 2010, but North Carolina’s population growth since then...
View ArticleNC in Focus: When did we transition to majority urban?
1920 marked the first year that more U.S. residents lived in urban areas than rural areas (51% vs. 49%). In North Carolina, this transition did not occur until 1990, when 50.4% of state residents were...
View ArticleU.S. Congressional District Population Estimates and Deviation from Ideal...
Following the decennial Census, political districts, such as U.S. Congressional Districts and state legislative districts, are reapportioned to states and counties on the basis of population and their...
View ArticleNC in Focus: Telework
The number of individuals who reported working from home has increased steadily over the past 35 years. In 1980, fewer than 50,000 North Carolinians reported working at home. Twenty years later, this...
View ArticleNC in Focus: Shifting from small towns to larger cities
When I moved into my first office at UNC, I inherited a framed, infographic poster published by the News & Observer after the release of the 2000 Census data. It’s a great overview of the...
View ArticleAll congressional district boundaries will require adjustment in 2021...
We originally discussed reapportionment and redistricting in North Carolina in a series of posts in November 2015. To reflect the newly redrawn congressional maps, we updated our 2014 population...
View ArticleThe persistent “rurality” of North Carolina
As we’ve mentioned in the past, North Carolina has a large population residing in areas that the U.S. Census Bureau classifies as rural. Among the 10 most populous states, North Carolina has the...
View Article5 things you should know about the 2015 county population estimates
North Carolina officially passed the 10 million mark in the 2015 state population estimates, growing by more than half a million new residents since 2010. New county population estimates from the U.S....
View ArticleWake’s path to 1 million
A century ago, in 1910, Wake County had a total population of 63,229. Out of 2,964 counties nationwide, Wake was the 196th most populous. Among North Carolina counties, Wake’s population was second...
View ArticleNC in Focus: Who Works at Home?
A growing number of North Carolinians are working at home. Since 2012, more than 200,000 North Carolina workers have reported working at home each year, about 4.7% of all state workers according to the...
View ArticleNC in Focus: Foreign-Born Asian Population, 1980 to 2012-2014
North Carolina’s foreign-born population has grown by more than 800% over the past 35 years. In 1980, fewer than 80,000 North Carolina residents had been born in another country to non-citizen parents....
View ArticleHola, xin chào, bonjour: many languages heard in NC homes
What language do you speak at home? Nearly one million North Carolinians reported speaking a language other than English at home, representing 11% or 1 in 9 state residents age 5 and older. Recently...
View ArticleMajority of NC high school graduates intend to continue their education
Educational attainment is critical to future success. For individuals, “educational attainment is a powerful predictor of well-being.” Higher levels of educational attainment are associated with higher...
View ArticleCollege Bound: NC high school graduates and the UNC school system
By this Sunday (May 1), most college-bound high school seniors will have made a decision about where they will be this fall. For North Carolina students staying in-state, college-bound students have a...
View ArticleOne way to think about rural-urban interdependence
“The growth of urban places historically has been fueled largely by in-migration from rural areas (including from other countries)…” – Daniel Lichter & David Brown, “Rural America in an Urban...
View ArticleNC in Focus: Vacation destinations
During peak summer months, communities in the Greater Topsail Beach region, such as Surf City and North Topsail Beach, see their population increase four- or five-fold, or more, as individuals head to...
View ArticleNot from around here: Share of population born in state of residence
Nationwide, 58.7% of U.S. residents currently live in the same state they were born in, according to 2010-2014 American Community Survey data. This ranges from a high of 78% in Louisiana to a low of...
View ArticleNorth Carolina growth steady, but slower
Between 1990 and 1995, North Carolina’s population increased by more than 550,000 new residents, a growth rate of 8.3%. The numeric growth in the next decade was even greater: the state grew by 7.9% to...
View ArticleNC in Focus: Young Adults Living at Home
“In 2014, for the first time in more than 130 years, adults ages 18 to 34 were slightly more likely to be living in their parents’ home than they were to be living with a spouse or partner in their …...
View ArticleNC Municipal Population Growth, 2010-2015
Fifty-six percent of North Carolina residents (5.66 million) live in one of the state’s 553 cities, towns, and villages. Although five of the state’s municipalities are among the nation’s 100 largest...
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