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Section C
Community Scene
February Edition Section C 1
The Best Places To Live In NC
Some might say wherever there is a
college basketball team, a NASCAR
track, a sunny beach, a snowy mountain,
great BBQ, or a hoppy crafted
beer.
The Tar Heel state takes eight hours
to drive from the Outer Banks on its
East Coast to the Blue Ridge Mountains
on its Western border. You’ll
never hear a North Carolinian say
that they are bored: the eight hour
trek unravels the state’s rich history
around every Tar Heel corner.
The Outer Banks has pirate lore and
shipwrecks, battles were lost and
won in the Piedmont’s back yard,
and ancient Cherokee stories continue
to be told around ceremonial fires
in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Craft beer, BBQ, and NASCAR aside,
North Carolina has a lot to offer and
it is no surprise that the Tar Heel
State is the 28th most extensive and
the 9th most populous in the U.S.
Chapel Hill
Elon
Wake Forest
Fletcher
But what city is the best place to live
in North Carolina for 2019? Well according
to the US Census and FBI
data we crunched, Cary is the best
place to live in North Carolina if you
care about home values, low crime,
and a high quality of life.
So, the question becomes, if you
wanted to relocate to the best part of
North Carolina, where would you go?
To answer that we looked at crime,
cost of living, and demographic data
for all 73 counties in the state.
Top 5 Best Counties
Orange County
Wake County
Cabarrus County
Polk County
Moore County
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Currently 38% of North Carolinians
are college-educated and with top
colleges and universities like Duke
and UNC, that percentage is sure to
increase. According to Forbes Magazine,
North Carolina was chosen as
the third best state for business.
So grab a BBQ sammie and a pint of
your favorite craft beer and read on
to discover the Best Cities in North
Carolina.
The Top 10 Best Places
#1 Cary
Davidson
Apex
Holly Springs
Pinehurst
Morrisville
To give you the best county in North
Carolina, we have to look at a handful
of metrics that signal the quality of a
place. With that in mind, we went
to two of the best sources of data on
the internet; the American Community
Survey data and FBI Crime data for
the most recent time period.
We paid particular attention to:
Violent Crime Rates, Property Crime
Rates, Median Home Values, Median
Income, Unemployment Rates etc.
Here’s a look at the worst counties in
North Carolina according to the data:
Robeson County
Anson County
Scotland County
By: Brittany Samuels, SLN Reporter
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