Census-designated place · Greene County, North Carolina

Maury, North Carolina

Maury is a census-designated place in Greene County, North Carolina. It has 1,339 residents. Maury, North Carolina has a quality-of-life score of 2 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,346 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within North Carolina it ranks #455 of 458 cities and towns. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low) and child care cost burden (low). It ranks worst on median household income (low), bachelor's degree or higher (low) and dental care shortage (high).

2Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,346 of 15,651 cities and towns
North Carolina: #455 of 458 in NC
Population: 1,339 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,271.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 3742000

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety23#12,072/15,637
Economy4#15,054/15,631
Housing—
Health17#12,928/15,609
Healthcare5#14,934/15,650
Environment43#8,873/15,453
Education2#15,353/15,649
Infrastructure12#13,841/15,650
Community26#11,627/15,651
Leisure & amenities5#14,898/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Maury, North Carolina ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Greene County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Comfortable days · high30.4%
80/100North Carolina 30.0%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationGreene County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.8 µg/m³
75/100North Carolina 7.5 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyGreene County value
Child care cost burden · low25.1%
74/100North Carolina 25.1%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGreene County value
Mammography screening · high50.0%
71/100North Carolina 50.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGreene County value
Depression · low20.9%
70/100North Carolina 24.8%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Suicide rate · low13.7 /100k
64/100North Carolina 14.7 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataGreene County value

Weaknesses

Median household income · low$18,362
0/100North Carolina $74,055United States $81,6042019-2023U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013High uncertainty
Bachelor's degree or higher · low3.3%
1/100North Carolina 35.7%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003High uncertainty
Dental care shortage · high20.0
1/100North Carolina 11.5United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationGreene County value
Unemployment rate · high19.0%
1/100North Carolina 3.8%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100North Carolina 29.5%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Primary care shortage · high19.0
3/100North Carolina 9.9United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationGreene County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Child poverty rateImproving
100.0% (2015-2019) → 70.7% (2020-2024)
−29 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
100.0% (2015-2019) → 89.4% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
78.9% (2015-2019) → 68.8% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Unemployment rateWorsening
10.7% (2015-2019) → 19.0% (2020-2024)
+8.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.9× (2016-2020) → 4.6× (2019-2023)
+18%3 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 3.9×
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.401 (2015-2019) → 0.450 (2020-2024)
+12%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Maury, North Carolina improved on 0 of 7 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 moved within the margin of error and 1 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 7 measures

Change of every measure of Maury, North Carolina between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	83.4%2015-2019	81.7%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	5%
High school diploma or higher	78.9%2015-2019	68.8%2020-2024	−10 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4012015-2019	0.4502020-2024	+0.048	Within the margin of error	17%
Poverty rate	56.2%2015-2019	54.7%2020-2024	−1.6 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	51.0%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	0 points	Little change	55%
Rent-burdened households	100.0%2015-2019	89.4%2020-2024	−11 points	Within the margin of error	83%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 10944 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Maury, North Carolina five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Maury, North Carolina in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

No place that looked like Maury, North Carolina five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Maury, North Carolina itself moved −17 points in standing on average over the same 5 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,339 residents (±309)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 30–39 men (+9.2 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,339 residents (±309)

Maury, North Carolina
North Carolina share

White31%†421
Black51%678
Hispanic or Latino4.9%†65

Education

1,142 residents (±259)

Maury, North Carolina
North Carolina share

No high school diploma31%†356
High school or GED32%†362
Some college29%†

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

115 households (±61)

Maury, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under $25k56%†64
$25k–50k9.6%†11
$50k–75k25%†29
$75k–100k9.6%†11
$100k–150k0.0%0
$150k–200k0.0%0
$200k or more0.0%0

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

115 households (±61)

Maury, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Own51%†59
Rent49%†56

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

47 households (±46)

Maury, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under $75011%†5
$750–1,00066%†31
$1,000–1,50023%†

Home values

59 homes (±41)

Maury, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under $150k81%†48
$150k–250k0.0%0
$250k–400k19%†11

Age of homes

130 homes (±61)

Maury, North Carolina
North Carolina share

2010 or later0.0%0
2000–200915%†20
1980–199922%†29

Size of homes

130 homes (±61)

Maury, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom0.0%0
2 bedrooms9.2%†12

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

51 workers (±39)

Maury, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Drive alone69%†35
Carpool31%†16
Public transit0.0%0
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home0.0%0
Other0.0%0

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

51 workers (±39)

Maury, North Carolina
North Carolina share

Under 15 min47%†24
15–29 min43%†22
30–44 min0.0%0

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Greene County, the county holding most of Maury's residents.

Greene County has 271 employer establishments, 132 for every 10,000 residents (0.53× the US rate of 248; 0.55× North Carolina's), with 2,294 paid employees at an average annual pay of $37,740. The Census Bureau also counts 1,242 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 271; 1,242 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 132; US 248 · North Carolina 237
Paid employees: 2,294
Average annual pay: $37,740; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Greene County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	26	12.6	0.82×About typical	153	$52,562	143
Ambulatory health care services	22	10.7	0.51×Fewer than typical	249	$42,908	39
Religious organizations	17	8.3	1.49×More than typical	58	$20,414	—
Truck transportation	16	7.8	1.54×More than typical	157	$56,987	32
Restaurants and other eating places	15	7.3	0.40×Fewer than typical	266	$17,639	9
Services to buildings and dwellings	14	6.8	1.01×About typical	72	$38,528	164
Automotive repair and maintenance	12	5.8	1.16×About typical	40	$39,525	55
Building finishing contractors	11	5.3	1.41×More than typical	82	$53,220	51
Gasoline stations	11	5.3	1.65×More than typical	74	$26,365	—
Landscaping services	11	5.3	1.52×More than typical	62	$39,258	66
Construction of buildings	9	4.4	0.58×Too few to compare	48	$31,188	53
Insurance agencies and brokerages	9	4.4	0.99×Too few to compare	15	$34,600	26

Rank places for an industry Open Greene County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 20,595 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Maury is mostly in Greene County.

See federal money in Greene County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Maury, North Carolina is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Donald G. DavisD-NC-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 70%Missed 1.8%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Greene County11100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Greene County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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