New state population figures find growth in some rural regions of northwest North Carolina outpacing the state average.
The figures from the Office of State Budget and Management show that from the one-year period of July 2021 to 2022 some areas in Northwest North Carolina outpaced the overall state growth rate of 1.3%.
The High Country’s Allegheny County grew the most percentage-wise of all Northwest North Carolina counties, at 2.4%.
Alamance, Davidson, Davie, Rockingham and Stokes counties all had growth rates higher than the state average.
Forsyth and Guilford grew by a total of almost 6,000 people, but that represents a change of less than 1%.