Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 12/19/18


North Carolina’s population is no longer growing at the rate it did in recent decades, but it’s still enough that the state will likely receive another seat in Congress after the 2020 census. North Carolina added an estimated 112,820 residents in the year ending last July 1, bringing the state’s population to 10,383,620, according to estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday. The state remains the ninth largest in the country, after Georgia and ahead of Michigan. Georgia added 106,420 residents.

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