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North Carolina

965 public bodies in 100 counties, from the 2022 Census of Governments, read on 2026-09-26. Each county opens everything this project holds about it.

Counties in North Carolina and the public bodies based in each
County	Cities, towns and villages	Special districts
Alamance County	9	3
Alexander County	1	1
Alleghany County	1	1
Anson County	7	2
Ashe County	3	1
Avery County	6	1
Beaufort County	7	10
Bertie County	8	1
Bladen County	7	6
Brunswick County	19	3
Buncombe County	6	5
Burke County	7	4
Cabarrus County	5	1
Caldwell County	8	2
Camden County	0	2
Carteret County	11	4
Caswell County	2	1
Catawba County	8	3
Chatham County	3	3
Cherokee County	2	3
Chowan County	1	4
Clay County	1	1
Cleveland County	15	3
Columbus County	10	4
Craven County	8	6
Cumberland County	9	3
Currituck County	0	1
Dare County	6	1
Davidson County	5	4
Davie County	3	2
Duplin County	10	3
Durham County	1	3
Edgecombe County	7	5
Forsyth County	8	2
Franklin County	4	1
Gaston County	13	3
Gates County	1	4
Graham County	3	1
Granville County	5	2
Greene County	3	2
Guilford County	10	8
Halifax County	7	5
Harnett County	5	2
Haywood County	4	4
Henderson County	5	2
Hertford County	6	5
Hoke County	1	1
Hyde County	0	6
Iredell County	5	3
Jackson County	4	2
Johnston County	11	5
Jones County	3	2
Lee County	2	3
Lenoir County	3	3
Lincoln County	1	3
Macon County	2	1
Madison County	3	5
Martin County	9	7
McDowell County	2	2
Mecklenburg County	7	3
Mitchell County	2	2
Montgomery County	5	4
Moore County	11	3
Nash County	11	3
New Hanover County	4	4
Northampton County	9	2
Onslow County	5	2
Orange County	3	2
Pamlico County	9	2
Pasquotank County	1	3
Pender County	6	1
Perquimans County	2	3
Person County	1	2
Pitt County	10	12
Polk County	3	1
Randolph County	9	4
Richmond County	6	3
Robeson County	15	9
Rockingham County	6	3
Rowan County	9	4
Rutherford County	8	3
Sampson County	8	1
Scotland County	4	3
Stanly County	10	2
Stokes County	3	2
Surry County	4	4
Swain County	1	2
Transylvania County	2	2
Tyrrell County	1	2
Union County	14	2
Vance County	3	4
Wake County	12	9
Warren County	3	1
Washington County	3	3
Watauga County	4	2
Wayne County	7	11
Wilkes County	3	2
Wilson County	7	3
Yadkin County	4	1
Yancey County	1	1