# Counties in North Carolina by housing units, 2024

All 100 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `housing_units`
- Unit: count
- Definition: All housing units, occupied and vacant: houses, apartments, mobile homes and rooms intended as separate living quarters. United States: American Community Survey five-year estimate, where the period shown is the last year of the five-year span.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25001: total housing units (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b25001.dat)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25001: total housing units. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b25001.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/housing-units/north-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Mecklenburg County | 503,071 |
| 2 | Wake County | 496,047 |
| 3 | Guilford County | 238,032 |
| 4 | Forsyth County | 175,631 |
| 5 | Durham County | 153,022 |
| 6 | Cumberland County | 143,798 |
| 7 | Buncombe County | 134,483 |
| 8 | New Hanover County | 120,050 |
| 9 | Gaston County | 101,671 |
| 10 | Brunswick County | 99,077 |
| 11 | Cabarrus County | 93,691 |
| 12 | Johnston County | 91,218 |
| 13 | Union County | 88,851 |
| 14 | Onslow County | 87,354 |
| 15 | Iredell County | 84,199 |
| 16 | Pitt County | 82,638 |
| 17 | Alamance County | 77,073 |
| 18 | Davidson County | 76,396 |
| 19 | Catawba County | 73,133 |
| 20 | Rowan County | 64,975 |
| 21 | Randolph County | 62,901 |
| 22 | Orange County | 62,858 |
| 23 | Henderson County | 58,044 |
| 24 | Harnett County | 54,902 |
| 25 | Wayne County | 53,505 |
| 26 | Carteret County | 52,181 |
| 27 | Moore County | 50,280 |
| 28 | Robeson County | 49,111 |
| 29 | Craven County | 48,533 |
| 30 | Cleveland County | 44,304 |
| 31 | Rockingham County | 43,868 |
| 32 | Nash County | 43,797 |
| 33 | Burke County | 40,358 |
| 34 | Lincoln County | 39,504 |
| 35 | Caldwell County | 37,387 |
| 36 | Wilson County | 37,053 |
| 37 | Chatham County | 35,914 |
| 38 | Haywood County | 35,560 |
| 39 | Dare County | 35,278 |
| 40 | Surry County | 33,747 |
| 41 | Watauga County | 33,355 |
| 42 | Rutherford County | 32,775 |
| 43 | Pender County | 31,844 |
| 44 | Wilkes County | 31,836 |
| 45 | Franklin County | 31,767 |
| 46 | Stanly County | 28,632 |
| 47 | Jackson County | 27,803 |
| 48 | Macon County | 27,216 |
| 49 | Lee County | 27,166 |
| 50 | Lenoir County | 26,879 |
| 51 | Sampson County | 25,852 |
| 52 | Halifax County | 24,872 |
| 53 | Granville County | 24,787 |
| 54 | Beaufort County | 24,526 |
| 55 | Duplin County | 23,861 |
| 56 | Columbus County | 23,563 |
| 57 | Edgecombe County | 23,281 |
| 58 | McDowell County | 21,575 |
| 59 | Stokes County | 21,497 |
| 60 | Hoke County | 20,921 |
| 61 | Richmond County | 19,893 |
| 62 | Vance County | 19,489 |
| 63 | Davie County | 19,311 |
| 64 | Transylvania County | 19,266 |
| 65 | Person County | 18,584 |
| 66 | Cherokee County | 18,404 |
| 67 | Pasquotank County | 17,721 |
| 68 | Yadkin County | 17,253 |
| 69 | Ashe County | 17,218 |
| 70 | Currituck County | 17,079 |
| 71 | Alexander County | 16,218 |
| 72 | Bladen County | 15,286 |
| 73 | Montgomery County | 14,998 |
| 74 | Scotland County | 14,441 |
| 75 | Avery County | 14,201 |
| 76 | Warren County | 11,723 |
| 77 | Yancey County | 11,376 |
| 78 | Madison County | 11,356 |
| 79 | Martin County | 11,058 |
| 80 | Polk County | 11,042 |
| 81 | Northampton County | 10,641 |
| 82 | Caswell County | 10,521 |
| 83 | Anson County | 9,954 |
| 84 | Hertford County | 9,816 |
| 85 | Bertie County | 8,984 |
| 86 | Mitchell County | 8,697 |
| 87 | Swain County | 8,629 |
| 88 | Greene County | 7,939 |
| 89 | Alleghany County | 7,804 |
| 90 | Clay County | 7,497 |
| 91 | Pamlico County | 7,322 |
| 92 | Chowan County | 7,190 |
| 93 | Perquimans County | 6,967 |
| 94 | Washington County | 6,040 |
| 95 | Graham County | 5,240 |
| 96 | Gates County | 4,827 |
| 97 | Jones County | 4,698 |
| 98 | Camden County | 4,301 |
| 99 | Hyde County | 2,952 |
| 100 | Tyrrell County | 2,229 |