# Counties in North Carolina by social vulnerability score (FEMA National Risk Index), 2025

All 100 values come from Federal Emergency Management Agency for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `nri_social_vulnerability_score`
- Unit: index
- Definition: Social vulnerability of a US county as used in FEMA's National Risk Index, from 0 to 100: the county's national percentile rank among all counties, based on the Census Bureau's Community Resilience Estimates, which count residents with social and economic risk factors such as low income, age, disability and household conditions. Higher means more vulnerable.
- Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Risk Index Counties, Social Vulnerability Score (SOVI_SCORE) (https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39485e8035d446a5bff03259508ae355)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/fema
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Risk Index Dataset: National Risk Index Counties, Social Vulnerability Score (SOVI_SCORE). https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39485e8035d446a5bff03259508ae355. Retrieved 2026-10-12. This product uses the FEMA National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/social-vulnerability-score/north-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hyde County | 98.9 |
| 2 | Robeson County | 98.4 |
| 3 | Jones County | 98.2 |
| 4 | Scotland County | 97.5 |
| 5 | Northampton County | 97.2 |
| 6 | Clay County | 95.2 |
| 7 | Tyrrell County | 94.9 |
| 8 | Alleghany County | 94.5 |
| 9 | Washington County | 94 |
| 10 | Swain County | 93.8 |
| 11 | Halifax County | 93.1 |
| 12 | Anson County | 93 |
| 13 | Hertford County | 92.3 |
| 14 | Warren County | 91.4 |
| 15 | Lenoir County | 89.8 |
| 16 | Yancey County | 89.6 |
| 17 | Greene County | 89.4 |
| 18 | Jackson County | 89.2 |
| 19 | Sampson County | 88.3 |
| 20 | Columbus County | 88.3 |
| 21 | Edgecombe County | 87.6 |
| 22 | Bertie County | 87.5 |
| 23 | Wilkes County | 86 |
| 24 | Ashe County | 84.9 |
| 25 | Polk County | 84.7 |
| 25 | Vance County | 84.7 |
| 27 | Duplin County | 83.5 |
| 28 | Pamlico County | 83.1 |
| 29 | Richmond County | 78.9 |
| 30 | Bladen County | 78.8 |
| 31 | Beaufort County | 78.1 |
| 32 | Alexander County | 77.8 |
| 33 | Avery County | 76.7 |
| 34 | Transylvania County | 75.4 |
| 35 | Brunswick County | 75.3 |
| 36 | Person County | 75.2 |
| 37 | Montgomery County | 74.4 |
| 38 | Macon County | 73.7 |
| 39 | Lee County | 73.3 |
| 40 | Wayne County | 73 |
| 41 | Rutherford County | 72.5 |
| 42 | Graham County | 71.8 |
| 43 | Henderson County | 69.3 |
| 44 | Perquimans County | 68.5 |
| 45 | Burke County | 67.8 |
| 46 | Cherokee County | 66.6 |
| 47 | McDowell County | 66.3 |
| 48 | Yadkin County | 65.7 |
| 49 | Caswell County | 64.8 |
| 50 | Hoke County | 64.7 |
| 51 | Craven County | 64.3 |
| 52 | Rockingham County | 63.8 |
| 53 | Martin County | 62.7 |
| 54 | Chowan County | 62.1 |
| 55 | Mitchell County | 61.5 |
| 55 | Nash County | 61.5 |
| 55 | Watauga County | 61.5 |
| 55 | Wilson County | 61.5 |
| 59 | Haywood County | 61.1 |
| 60 | Surry County | 61 |
| 61 | Pasquotank County | 57.8 |
| 62 | Stokes County | 53.5 |
| 63 | Carteret County | 52.4 |
| 64 | Randolph County | 49.9 |
| 65 | Chatham County | 46.9 |
| 66 | Dare County | 45.2 |
| 67 | Caldwell County | 45 |
| 68 | Granville County | 44.9 |
| 69 | Cleveland County | 44.1 |
| 70 | Rowan County | 42.9 |
| 71 | Gates County | 42.8 |
| 71 | Guilford County | 42.8 |
| 73 | Davidson County | 42.4 |
| 74 | Pitt County | 42.2 |
| 75 | Moore County | 40 |
| 76 | Forsyth County | 39.9 |
| 77 | Lincoln County | 39.8 |
| 78 | Franklin County | 38.4 |
| 79 | Madison County | 37.4 |
| 80 | Davie County | 37.2 |
| 81 | Buncombe County | 35 |
| 82 | Pender County | 34.2 |
| 83 | Catawba County | 32.4 |
| 84 | Stanly County | 29.4 |
| 85 | Johnston County | 29.2 |
| 86 | Gaston County | 29.1 |
| 87 | Harnett County | 27.5 |
| 88 | Durham County | 26.2 |
| 89 | Alamance County | 24.4 |
| 90 | Cumberland County | 23.2 |
| 91 | New Hanover County | 19 |
| 92 | Mecklenburg County | 17.9 |
| 93 | Iredell County | 16.6 |
| 93 | Orange County | 16.6 |
| 95 | Onslow County | 14.4 |
| 96 | Cabarrus County | 12.2 |
| 97 | Camden County | 10.6 |
| 97 | Currituck County | 10.6 |
| 97 | Union County | 10.6 |
| 97 | Wake County | 10.6 |