# Counties in North Carolina by business revenue: manufacturing (Economic Census), 2022

All 98 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2022, so the places are comparable. 1 counties have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `business_revenue_usd_manufacturing`
- Unit: USD million
- Definition: Sales, value of shipments or revenue of employer establishments in manufacturing (NAICS 31-33), in millions of current US dollars, from the U.S. Census Bureau Economic Census.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of manufacturing (NAICS 31-33), all establishments (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Economic Census basic statistics by geography (EC1700BASIC, EC2200BASIC): sales, value of shipments, or revenue (RCPTOT) of manufacturing (NAICS 31-33), all establishments. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/data/2022/sector00/EC2200BASIC.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-revenue-manufacturing/north-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | USD million |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Forsyth County | 25,566.3 |
| 2 | Guilford County | 22,969.8 |
| 3 | Wake County | 13,291.9 |
| 4 | Mecklenburg County | 11,861.9 |
| 5 | Catawba County | 8,552.5 |
| 6 | Wilson County | 8,013.1 |
| 7 | Durham County | 7,869.5 |
| 8 | Gaston County | 6,316.6 |
| 9 | Rowan County | 5,557.7 |
| 10 | Robeson County | 5,550 |
| 11 | Iredell County | 5,535.5 |
| 12 | Buncombe County | 5,065.6 |
| 13 | Union County | 4,477 |
| 14 | Lee County | 4,322.5 |
| 15 | Nash County | 4,180 |
| 16 | Randolph County | 4,086.8 |
| 17 | Davidson County | 3,674.3 |
| 18 | Pitt County | 3,625.4 |
| 19 | Duplin County | 3,545.5 |
| 20 | Cumberland County | 3,410.8 |
| 21 | Johnston County | 3,373.3 |
| 22 | Alamance County | 3,347.9 |
| 23 | Granville County | 3,242.9 |
| 24 | Lincoln County | 3,145.2 |
| 25 | Bladen County | 2,995.8 |
| 26 | Cleveland County | 2,772.4 |
| 27 | New Hanover County | 2,684.7 |
| 28 | Henderson County | 2,644.2 |
| 29 | Burke County | 2,614.6 |
| 30 | Rockingham County | 2,608.9 |
| 31 | Cabarrus County | 2,474.8 |
| 32 | Lenoir County | 2,291.6 |
| 33 | Hertford County | 2,188.2 |
| 34 | Caldwell County | 2,050.5 |
| 35 | Wayne County | 1,804.4 |
| 36 | Beaufort County | 1,799.5 |
| 37 | Franklin County | 1,736.5 |
| 38 | Rutherford County | 1,721.6 |
| 39 | Wilkes County | 1,603.4 |
| 40 | Person County | 1,579.1 |
| 41 | Craven County | 1,551.4 |
| 42 | Chatham County | 1,496.3 |
| 43 | Surry County | 1,496.2 |
| 44 | Stanly County | 1,436.4 |
| 45 | Sampson County | 1,348.1 |
| 46 | Montgomery County | 1,329.8 |
| 47 | McDowell County | 1,326.9 |
| 48 | Richmond County | 1,283 |
| 49 | Scotland County | 1,174.1 |
| 50 | Davie County | 1,169.5 |
| 51 | Yadkin County | 1,139.7 |
| 52 | Haywood County | 1,075.7 |
| 53 | Halifax County | 949 |
| 54 | Edgecombe County | 930.6 |
| 55 | Alexander County | 926.9 |
| 56 | Columbus County | 914.8 |
| 57 | Vance County | 853.9 |
| 58 | Bertie County | 697.8 |
| 59 | Harnett County | 656.1 |
| 60 | Orange County | 624.3 |
| 61 | Washington County | 620.3 |
| 62 | Hoke County | 619.3 |
| 63 | Brunswick County | 516.7 |
| 64 | Chowan County | 477.6 |
| 65 | Anson County | 452.9 |
| 66 | Martin County | 449.1 |
| 67 | Cherokee County | 413 |
| 68 | Moore County | 380.7 |
| 69 | Stokes County | 377.7 |
| 70 | Mitchell County | 353.6 |
| 71 | Alleghany County | 352.7 |
| 72 | Pasquotank County | 339.4 |
| 73 | Ashe County | 303.9 |
| 74 | Onslow County | 288.5 |
| 75 | Northampton County | 278.9 |
| 76 | Yancey County | 274.5 |
| 77 | Pender County | 262.5 |
| 78 | Carteret County | 239.8 |
| 79 | Transylvania County | 176.4 |
| 80 | Warren County | 151.4 |
| 81 | Watauga County | 124.3 |
| 82 | Dare County | 118.6 |
| 83 | Polk County | 104.9 |
| 84 | Madison County | 104 |
| 85 | Perquimans County | 96.9 |
| 86 | Jackson County | 96.5 |
| 87 | Clay County | 91.3 |
| 88 | Greene County | 86.2 |
| 89 | Macon County | 58.4 |
| 90 | Caswell County | 54.9 |
| 91 | Swain County | 40 |
| 92 | Hyde County | 35.1 |
| 93 | Pamlico County | 34.3 |
| 94 | Tyrrell County | 28.2 |
| 95 | Jones County | 24 |
| 96 | Currituck County | 19.8 |
| 97 | Avery County | 19.1 |
| 98 | Graham County | 2.3 |