Ranking of North Carolina Counties By Voting-age Population Percentage from Census 2020

Updated on August 22, 2023.

According to the data from the US 2020 Census, as at April 2020, Watauga County had the highest voting-age population percentage in North Carolina (86.14%), followed by Pamlico County (85.35%), and Brunswick County (85.31%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties with high voting-age population percentage, and the table below shows the ranking of all North Carolina counties based on the percentage of the population that were in the voting-age (18 years and over) group.

You can also see the ranking of counties by population for other states as well as for the whole United States.

Ranking of North Carolina Counties By Voting-age Population Percentage from Census 2020
Watauga
Pamlico
Brunswick
Avery
Polk
Cherokee
Clay
Bertie
Carteret
Jackson
Ranking of North Carolina Counties By Voting-age Population Percentage from Census 2020
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Rank County % of County Voting-age Population
1 Watauga County 86.14
2 Pamlico County 85.35
3 Brunswick County 85.31
4 Avery County 84.83
5 Polk County 83.84
6 Cherokee County 83.59
7 Clay County 83.27
8 Bertie County 83.06
9 Carteret County 83.05
10 Jackson County 83.02
11 Transylvania County 82.76
12 Ashe County 82.72
13 Madison County 82.49
14 Hyde County 82.48
15 Dare County 82.47
16 Haywood County 82.29
17 Northampton County 82.26
18 Mitchell County 82.17
19 Alleghany County 82.13
20 Warren County 82.03
21 Macon County 81.98
22 Hertford County 81.84
23 Caswell County 81.79
24 Yancey County 81.78
25 Buncombe County 81.60
26 New Hanover County 81.57
27 Jones County 81.56
28 Perquimans County 81.45
29 Henderson County 81.21
30 Chowan County 81.08
31 Greene County 81.00
32 Stokes County 80.97
33 Anson County 80.91
34 Beaufort County 80.64
35 Washington County 80.43
36 Orange County 80.38
37 Alexander County 80.32
37 McDowell County 80.32
38 Halifax County 80.16
39 Burke County 79.96
39 Martin County 79.96
40 Durham County 79.91
41 Rockingham County 79.90
42 Caldwell County 79.89
43 Wilkes County 79.81
44 Rutherford County 79.79
45 Chatham County 79.69
46 Columbus County 79.64
47 Gates County 79.62
48 Graham County 79.33
49 Tyrrell County 79.32
50 Yadkin County 79.23
51 Craven County 79.21
52 Person County 79.19
53 Bladen County 79.13
54 Davie County 79.10
55 Surry County 79.09
56 Granville County 79.02
57 Stanly County 78.82
58 Lincoln County 78.81
59 Catawba County 78.80
60 Pasquotank County 78.79
61 Scotland County 78.55
62 Nash County 78.52
63 Moore County 78.43
64 Cleveland County 78.41
65 Montgomery County 78.35
66 Currituck County 78.31
67 Guilford County 78.29
68 Rowan County 78.28
69 Davidson County 78.25
70 Alamance County 78.16
71 Edgecombe County 78.10
72 Gaston County 78.02
73 Randolph County 77.90
74 Lenoir County 77.87
75 Swain County 77.74
76 Forsyth County 77.73
77 Pitt County 77.70
78 Franklin County 77.50
78 Wilson County 77.50
79 Pender County 77.42
80 Richmond County 77.40
81 Vance County 77.20
82 Wayne County 77.13
83 Mecklenburg County 77.10
84 Iredell County 77.02
85 Onslow County 76.97
86 Lee County 76.47
87 Camden County 76.17
88 Wake County 76.15
89 Sampson County 76.12
90 Duplin County 76.04
91 Cumberland County 76.03
92 Robeson County 75.91
93 Cabarrus County 74.20
94 Johnston County 74.12
95 Harnett County 73.42
96 Union County 72.97
97 Hoke County 71.95