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NC State Fair finishes with lowest attendance since 2008 — but ‘absolutely worth it’
Story Date: 10/26/2021
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Source: Josh Shaffer, NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/25/21
The NC State Fair finished with its lowest attendance total in more than a decade, though organizers celebrated the numbers as higher-than-expected for the lingering pandemic. With preliminary totals tallied through Sunday, the fair drew 821,463 people, down 12% from 2019 — its last year before COVID-19. Though the Raleigh fair shut its gates completely in 2020, before anyone in the state had been vaccinated, its attendance this year dropped lower than any year since 2008, when 765,067 people came.
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