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Population figures show growth in most of northwest North Carolina

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published October 16, 2023 at 5:09 PM EDT

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%.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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Population figures show growth in most of northwest North Carolina

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