Wake, the top county in North Carolina, ranked No. 137 nationally ... Walmart, Novant Health and Food Lion are among the largest private sector employers in the region. Out of all 100 counties ...

according to date from Healthy Communities North Carolina. The county has an unemployment rate of 9.9%. The largest employer in Bertie County is Perdue Farms, a poultry processing facility.

Contender Development is using the land for its "largest master-planned ... Brunswick County, already the fastest-growing county in North Carolina, will potentially be set to grow at an even ...

The nation's largest homebuilder is once again planning ... to having a net positive of people living in the eastern North Carolina county. Once a thriving tobacco hub, Wilson saw its population ...