Metro area · North Carolina

Greensboro-High Point, NC metro area

Greensboro-High Point, NC is a metropolitan area of 3 counties in North Carolina, home to 805,945 residents. Greensboro-High Point, NC metro area has a quality-of-life score of 52 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #440 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in North Carolina it ranks #14 of 38. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), suicide rate (low) and distance to an Amtrak station (low). It ranks worst on drought exposure (high), public libraries (low) and violent crime rate (high).

52Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#440 of 925 metro and micro areas
North Carolina
#14 of 38 in NC
Population
805,945 (2025)
Land area
1,994 mi²
Density
404.2 /mi²
CBSA code
24660

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Greensboro-High Point, NC metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety18#760/924
  • Economy49#473/925
  • Housing37#584/925
  • Health50#460/925
  • Healthcare53#431/923
  • Environment55#416/917
  • Education63#341/925
  • Infrastructure67#304/925
  • Community65#324/925
  • Leisure & amenities61#365/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Greensboro-High Point, NC metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Greensboro-High Point, NC metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Greensboro-High Point, NC metro area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Greensboro-High Point, NC

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Guilford CountyCentral county60562,234
  2. Randolph CountyOutlying county33149,516
  3. Rockingham CountyOutlying county2494,195

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. GreensboroPrincipal city301,198
  2. High PointPrincipal city116,245

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Greensboro301,198
  2. High Point116,245
  3. Asheboro27,580
  4. Eden15,356
  5. Reidsville14,585
  6. Archdale12,087
  7. Summerfield11,116
  8. Gibsonville9,467
  9. Oak Ridge7,744
  10. Trinity7,111
  11. Stokesdale6,004
  12. Pleasant Garden5,060
  13. Randleman4,644
  14. Forest Oaks4,293
  15. Jamestown3,708
  16. Wentworth2,692
  17. Liberty2,682
  18. Mayodan2,401
  19. Madison2,242
  20. Ramseur2,150
  21. Franklinville1,131
  22. Stoneville1,094
  23. Sedalia772
  24. McLeansville688

Other metro and micro areas in North Carolina

Areas based in North Carolina, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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