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- Alamance County174,286 people · Ahead on furniture stores
- Alexander County36,440 people · Short on child care and sit-down restaurants
- Alleghany County11,075 people · Ahead on sit-down restaurants
- Anson County21,903 people · Ahead on caterers and food trucks
- Ashe County26,831 people · Short on child care
- Avery County17,643 people · Short on child care and auto repair
- Beaufort County44,597 people · Short on hardware and building supply stores
- Bertie County17,482 people · Short on sit-down restaurants and fast food and takeout
- Bladen County29,591 people · Short on hotels and motels and hardware and building supply stores
- Brunswick County145,889 people · Short on child care and hotels and motels
- Buncombe County271,790 people · Short on child care and barber shops
- Burke County87,863 people · Short on child care and caterers and food trucks
- Cabarrus County231,262 people · Ahead on bookstores
- Caldwell County80,618 people · Short on child care and hotels and motels
- Camden County10,743 people · Short on sit-down restaurants
- Carteret County68,652 people · Short on child care
- Caswell County22,689 people · Short on sit-down restaurants and fast food and takeout
- Catawba County162,051 people · Short on child care and barber shops
- Chatham County78,319 people · Short on coffee shops and snack bars and hotels and motels
- Cherokee County29,197 people · Short on child care
- Chowan County13,814 people · Ahead on fast food and takeout
- Clay County11,391 people · Ahead on lawn care and landscaping
- Cleveland County100,170 people · Short on dentists and hotels and motels
- Columbus County50,453 people · Short on hotels and motels
- Craven County101,074 people · Short on child care
- Cumberland County336,749 people · Ahead on barber shops
- Currituck County29,612 people · Short on hair and beauty salons and dentists
- Dare County37,534 people · Short on child care
- Davidson County171,063 people · Short on child care and dentists
- Davie County43,526 people · Short on child care and fast food and takeout
- Duplin County49,053 people · Short on caterers and food trucks and hotels and motels
- Durham County329,405 people · Short on auto repair and hardware and building supply stores
- Edgecombe County48,777 people · Short on fast food and takeout and sit-down restaurants
- Forsyth County386,740 people · Ahead on bookstores
- Franklin County71,962 people · Short on sit-down restaurants and fast food and takeout
- Gaston County231,485 people · Short on coffee shops and snack bars and hardware and building supply stores
- Gates County10,437 people · Short on auto repair
- Graham County8,041 people · Ahead on cleaning services (janitorial and maid)
- Granville County61,439 people · Short on sit-down restaurants and hardware and building supply stores
- Greene County20,421 people · Short on fast food and takeout
- Guilford County542,987 people · Ahead on furniture stores
- Halifax County48,219 people · Ahead on furniture stores
- Harnett County136,503 people · Short on sit-down restaurants and coffee shops and snack bars
- Haywood County62,432 people · Short on child care
- Henderson County117,387 people · Short on child care
- Hertford County20,492 people · Short on auto repair
- Hoke County53,102 people · Short on auto repair and sit-down restaurants
- Hyde County4,625 people · Ahead on sit-down restaurants
- Iredell County191,800 people · Ahead on pet grooming and boarding
- Jackson County43,089 people · Short on hair and beauty salons and auto repair
- Johnston County226,623 people · Short on sit-down restaurants and dentists
- Jones County9,245 people · Ahead on barber shops
- Lee County64,565 people · Short on hotels and motels
- Lenoir County54,917 people · Ahead on gyms and fitness
- Lincoln County90,359 people · Short on hardware and building supply stores
- Macon County37,533 people · Short on child care
- Madison County21,640 people · Ahead on lawn care and landscaping
- Martin County21,773 people · Ahead on hotels and motels
- McDowell County44,679 people · Short on child care and hotels and motels
- Mecklenburg County1,130,906 people · Ahead on hotels and motels
- Mitchell County14,973 people · Short on child care
- Montgomery County25,874 people · Short on dentists
- Moore County102,840 people · Ahead on pet stores
- Nash County95,451 people · Short on pet grooming and boarding
- New Hanover County231,214 people · Short on child care
- Northampton County17,212 people · Short on child care and fast food and takeout
- Onslow County208,537 people · Short on child care and dentists
- Orange County147,292 people · Short on hair and beauty salons and cleaning services (janitorial and maid)
- Pamlico County12,315 people · Ahead on cleaning services (janitorial and maid)
- Pasquotank County40,830 people · Ahead on furniture stores
- Pender County63,475 people · Short on hotels and motels
- Perquimans County13,146 people · Short on fast food and takeout
- Person County39,275 people · Short on sit-down restaurants and hotels and motels
- Pitt County172,279 people · Ahead on bookstores
- Polk County19,689 people · Ahead on veterinarians
- Randolph County145,322 people · Short on child care and dentists
- Richmond County42,818 people · Ahead on dentists
- Robeson County116,858 people · Short on pet grooming and boarding and dentists
- Rockingham County91,585 people · Short on child care and dentists
- Rowan County148,487 people · Short on fast food and takeout and hotels and motels
- Rutherford County64,850 people · Short on hardware and building supply stores
- Sampson County59,245 people · Short on coffee shops and snack bars and dentists
- Scotland County34,353 people · Short on dentists
- Stanly County63,557 people · Short on dentists
- Stokes County44,889 people · Short on child care and fast food and takeout
- Surry County71,407 people · Short on child care
- Swain County14,065 people · Short on auto repair
- Transylvania County33,243 people · Short on auto repair and child care
- Tyrrell County3,376 people · Ahead on cleaning services (janitorial and maid)
- Union County244,975 people · Short on fast food and takeout and sit-down restaurants
- Vance County42,361 people · Ahead on furniture stores
- Wake County1,151,009 people · Ahead on pet grooming and boarding
- Warren County18,751 people · Short on fast food and takeout
- Washington County10,905 people · Ahead on fast food and takeout
- Watauga County54,607 people · Short on hair and beauty salons and child care
- Wayne County117,606 people · Short on hardware and building supply stores and veterinarians
- Wilkes County65,983 people · Short on child care and caterers and food trucks
- Wilson County78,648 people · Short on pet grooming and boarding and veterinarians
- Yadkin County37,419 people · Short on child care and fast food and takeout
- Yancey County18,676 people · Short on child care
Method, sources and corrections are on every county page. Census data read October 25, 2026.
